Fantasy and Science Fiction for Children and Teens

Books About Magical Creatures

75 Books Found

Above the Veil

The Seventh Tower: Book 4

Tal and Milla have found the codex- and discovered some strange sunstones- called keystones, -one for each color. These keystones seem to be the key to everything... but that only means that the dange... (more details)

The Adventures of King Midas

Ages 9-12: Everybody knows about Midas' golden touch. But how did he get it? Why? This fantastic story illustrates how King Midas got his golden touch and then goes through many adventures to try to get it off a... (more details)

The Alchemist's Cat

The Deptford Histories: Book 1

This book tells of how Jupiter became so powerful and reveals many secrets! ... (more details)

The Amulet of Samarkand

The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Nathaniel is a brilliant young wizard, but he is apprenticed to a mediocre, middle-ranking magician, Arthur Underwood, who doesn't understand Nathaniel's talent, much less encourage it. Bored and impa... (more details)

The Arctic Incident

Artemis Fowl: Book 2

Ages 9-12: Artemis is on his way to find his father- but to do this he must make a deal with the fairy, Holly Short- he helps them and they help him. Half the book is helping the fairies and the other half is he... (more details)

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl: Book 1

Life is not easy when you are a 12 year old criminal mastermind...... especially when you have kidnapped a FAIRY!?!?!? Artemis Fowl is holding Captain Holly Short of LEPrecon for ransom...... will he ... (more details)

Beyond The DeepWoods

Edge Chronicles: Book 1

A young woodtroll who is always picked on, by the name of Twig, has his mother reveal something to him: she is not his mother. Neither is he a woodtroll! He sets off on a journey that takes him throug... (more details)

Beyond the Dragon Portal

Sadie's sister Phoebe has always claimed that every night, dragons take her to dragonland. Of course, these are but the fantasies of a young girl, right? right?!? Then, Phoebe vanishes. and their baby... (more details)

The Book Of The Sword

Darkest Age: Book 2

In this sequel to The Coming Of Dragons, The two children have been kidnapped by the horrible dragon, Torment, and dropped in a frozen wasteland. But rather then try to go back, Elspeth'... (more details)

The Book Of Three

The Chronicles of Prydain: Book 1

Taran is an assistant pig keeper for a prophetic pig named Hen-wen! He discovers that Arawn (the evil death-lord) has claimed a new champion: the Horned King! Everywhere there is despair! Then Hen-wen... (more details)

The Breezes of Inspire

The Remin Chronicles: Book 2

Ages 8-12: In The Dark Dreamweaver, David traveled to the land of dreams and became a wizard. Now, he and his cousins accidentally plunge into the land of Inspire—and become trapped in a world where they a... (more details)

Children Of The Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure

Children of the Lamp: Book 1

Two twins are sent to a eccentric uncle.... who is a djinn?!?!?!? They discover that they are also djinn, and soon find themselves facing off with Iblis, the most evil djinn in the world! (more details)

Crystal Doors

Crystal Doors: Book 1

Gwen's parents have both mysteriously died. And Vic's mother myseriously disappeared. Now, the two cousins have lived together with vic's scientist father for several years. But soon, something strang... (more details)

The Crystal Prison

The Deptford Mice Trilogy: Book 2

Ages 9-12: Returning from the cellars of jupiter, the young Oswald is taken by a fatal fever, and Audrey is forced to strike a terrible bargain with the squirrel queen, the Starwife. The bargain? Oswald is cured... (more details)

The Curse Of The Gloamglozer

Edge Chronicles: Book 4

Ages 10-12: In a time before the first three books, Linius Pallitax's daughter, Maris, is shocked and hurt when her father gets a new apprentice- the son of a sky pirate captain, Quint, instead of her. He seems t... (more details)

The Dark Dreamweaver

The Remin Chronicles: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Eleven-year-old David is suffering from nightmares. Over and over again, he dreams about a strange, bear-like man with black eyes. He's not the only one; an epidemic of nightmares seems to have infect... (more details)

The Dark Portal

The Deptford Mice Trilogy: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Several young mice journey into the deep cellars of their world, and soon find themselves enraveled in a web of mystery as the evil rat-god Jupiter has many plans..... (more details)

Dragon Rider

Ages 9-12: Humans are encroaching on Dragon territory, so Firedrake the dragon and his companion Sorrel the brownie set off in search of the Rim of Heaven, the legendary ancient home of the dragons. Soon they ar... (more details)

Dragon Sword

Dragonlance: The New Adventures: Book 5

Ages 10 and up: Now that Asvoria has emerged, Asvoria is heading toward her most terrible weapon, the Aegis. If our heroes find the Aegis first, it might be their only chance to return Nearra to her normal form and s... (more details)

The Dragon's Eye

Erec Rex: Book 1

Erec Rex suddenly wakes up one morning to find his mother gone, Inexplicably. No note, no anything. But she left her glasses. She NEVER leaves her glasses. Seized by an idea, he heads to a hot dog sta... (more details)

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Fairies and Magical Creatures

Ages 5 and up: Open this entrancing book and meet Shakespeare's Queen Titania, springing up with her silver wings aflutter. Further on, a crystalline elfin castle rises into the clouds, not far from some scary hobgo... (more details)

Eragon

Inheritance: Book 1

Ages Young Adult: Eragon is hunting in the mountains when a blue stone mysteriously appears. Eragon takes the stone home, intending to sell it for food for his family, but to his surprise, the stone turns out to be a d... (more details)

The Eternity Code

Artemis Fowl: Book 3

Artemis's father has returned, but he makes Artemis promise to give up crime. After one last scheme. Artemis has used fairy technology to build a super device, the c cube. he makes a deal with Jon Spi... (more details)

The Fall

The Seventh Tower: Book 1

Tal lives in a castle, a castle that centers around seven colors, the colors of the rainbow. Tal is almost of age, and ready to gain his spiritshadow, a being that will be like a farmiliar to him. But... (more details)

The Field Guide

The Spiderwick Chronicles: Book 1

Ages 6-10: When Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, along with their mother, move into the ramshackle old house belonging to crazy Aunt Lucinda after the Grace parents' divorce, strange things start happening. Jare... (more details)

The Final Reckoning

The Deptford Mice Trilogy: Book 3

The ghost of Jupiter has returned! In the forest innocent squirells lie murdered. And underground a rat named Old Stumpy is stirring things up.......................... (more details)

The Finder

The Watchers Quest: Book 3

Ages Young Adul: Emma is in trouble again. Against the orders of Master Histal, she goes into the border cave that she has discovered on Argadnel and is suddenly drawn into a strange new world. Surprisingly, the she i... (more details)

Flora Segunda

Flora Fyrdraaca lives in crackpot hall, one of the four great houses, each with it's own magickal butler to keep it organized. Well, all except crackpot. Flora's mother, a military general, dismissed ... (more details)

The Flower Fairies

Fairy Realm: Book 2

That's the problem with magic. There's either too little of it or too much! After jessie helped save the realm, and the magic in the realm was restored, there has has been a sudden explosion of magic!... (more details)

The Golem's Eye

The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Book 2

Ambitious young magician Nathaniel is now working for the government in the office of Internal Affairs. Nathaniel is soon put in charge of pursuing the Resistance, the group of rebels working to under... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter: Book 2

Ages 9-12: Harry Potter is back at Hogwarts for his second year, and new mysteries and new dangers abound. Who or what is turning students to stone? Is the Heir of Slytherin at Hogwarts - and could it be Harry h... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter: Book 4

Ages 9-12: Another year at Hogwarts, but this year, things are different. First of all, Harry gets to go to the Quidditch World Cup with the Weasleys before the start of term. Once at Hogwarts, he finds out that... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Harry Potter: Book 6

The Exciting Sequel to Harry Potter, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, and last: Harry Potter And The Order Of The... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter: Book 5

Ages 9-12: The war against Voldemort has begun, and things aren't looking good for Harry. First, he's stuck at the Dursley's with no news from his friends and no word from Dumbledore. But things don't get any be... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter: Book 3

Ages 9-12: Another year at Hogwarts, another Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher, and another adventure. This time, convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, the wizard prison, and word is that... (more details)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Potter: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Ten year old Harry Potter is an orphan. Since his parents died, he has been raised by his aunt and uncle, who treat him horribly. His life is miserable, until his eleventh birthday, when he discovers ... (more details)

A Hat Full of Sky

In A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany is now 11-years-old, and she goes to live with an experienced witch, Miss Level, to lear... (more details)

Heir Apparent

In a futuristic world, when one girl whose life is miserable knows what she is getting into, she plays a futuristic video game- the hitch? She is inside the game! And when the game malfunctions there ... (more details)

The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet

The Secrets of Droon: Book 1

Ages 7-10: When Eric and his friends find a hidden door in his basement, they are soon thrust into a troubled magical world - the Land of Droon. (more details)

Inkheart

Ages 9-12: Meggie loves books, She lives alone with her father, a book binder named Mo; her mother died when she was young. Their lives are fairly uneventful until a stranger named Dustfinger appears at their ho... (more details)

Into Battle

The Seventh Tower: Book 5

The great veil, which has protected the dark world for so long, is weakening. There are strange dark forces who want to destroy it.... But the icecarls have found out about the castles weakness and ar... (more details)

The Iron Ring

Ages 9-12: With a simple roll of the dice, King Tamar loses everything- his kingdom even his life! his teacher tells him it was but a dream, but Tamar wonders about the mysterious iron ring that has appeared on ... (more details)

Journey to the Volcano Palace

The Secrets of Droon: Book 2

Ages 7-10: When Eric and his friends have strange dreams about Droon, they find they must return to it. Soon they find that they must also try to find Sparr's evil fortress and stop him from destroying everythin... (more details)

L.O.S.T.

Seventeen-year-old Brendan, or Bren, is on a road trip to San Diego to visit a friend. In spite of his ADHD, in spite of his hyper-critical dad's conviction that Bren will screw up, Bren got permissio... (more details)

Lady Friday

The Keys to the Kingdom: Book 5

Arthur has just beaten the treacherous trustee, Sir Thursday, and has barely had time to recover when a strange message appears from Lady Friday... The trustee says that she wants to abdicate, and has... (more details)

The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye

The Last Apprentice: Book 5

Ages 10 and up: The Fiend is loose in the county and the Spook and Alice are worried about Tom's safety. Mr. Gregory sends Tom to spend six months with Bill Arkwright, the Spook in the Lake District. When Tom encount... (more details)

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

Leven Thumps: Book 1

Ages 10 and up: Leven Thump's mother dies when he is born, leaving him in the not-very-tender care of his mother's half-sister Addy and her husband Terry. Addy and Terry make Leven sleep on the porch, and his life wi... (more details)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: Book 1

Ages 8 and up: When four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, are sent to stay at the rambling old house of a professor in the country, they discover a magical wardrobe in the Professor's house. Going into the ... (more details)

The Lost Years of Merlin

The Lost Years of Merlin Epic: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Emrys remembers nothing from the time before he washed ashore on the coast of Wales. He doesn't even know if the woman with him, who calls herself Branwen, is his mother, even though she claims that s... (more details)

Magic By the Lake

Half Magic: Book 2

Jane, Mark, Martha, and Katherine are finally going on a vacation! to the lake... when they find a magic turtle, they experience their SECOND magic adventure! (see (more details)

The Marvelous Land of Oz

The Oz Series: Book 2

Ages 9-12: A young boy named Tip lives in the north of Oz with an evil witch named Mombi. One day, to avoid a terrible punishment (being turned into a statue) Tip escapes from Mombi and sets off for the Emerald ... (more details)

Midnight Over Sanctaphrax

Edge Chronicles: Book 3

The young sky pirate captain, Twig, travels to the center of the mother storm to find his father. His father is fading, but tells him important news: the mother storm is returning to the edge! It is g... (more details)

Monsterology: The Complete Book of Monstrous Creatures

Ages 8 and up: Do Krakens still lurk below the ocean waves? Do Griffins command the air above? In a fascinating new discovery sure to rival the groundbreaking Dragonology, the intrepid Dr. Ernest Drake turns ... (more details)

The Mysterious Island

The Secrets of Droon: Book 3

Ages 7-10: After returning to Droon, Erik, Julie, Neil, Keeah, Galen and Max are swept onto a magical island by Sparr. What will they do to escape it and get the Red Eye of Dawn? (more details)

Peter and the Starcatchers

Ages 9-12: When a young orphan, Peter, is thrown on the ship The Never Land, to journey to the cruel King Zarboff III, a lot of people including Peter, notice a very strange trunk on board the ship. This trunk s... (more details)

The Poisoned Crown

The Sangreal Trilogy: Book 3

Nathan has visited other universes in his dreams. He has a unique ability to open a portal through the multiverse in his mind while he sleeps, and he has used that ability to recover two of the three ... (more details)

Return of the Sorceress

Dragonlance: The New Adventures: Book 4

Ages 10 and up: Our heroes arrive in Ravenscar, a city adjoining Cairengorn Keep, where Maddoc is. They believe that something in Maddoc's lair could help Nearra recover her memory. But then, in the middle of Ravensc... (more details)

Rune Warriors: Dane and the Shield of Odin

Ages 8-12: When the tyrant Thidrek kidnaps Dane the Defiant's beloved Astrid to trade her for Thor's Hammer, the first weapon of mass destruction, Dane takes off after him like a bat out of Valhalla. Navigating ... (more details)

Sabriel

The Abhorsen Trilogy: Book 1

Ages 10 and up: Sabriel is the daughter of the Abhorsen, the necromancer who is responsible for protecting the world from the dead who return to the world of the living. But Sabriel has grown up at a boarding school ... (more details)

The Sea Of Monsters

Percy Jackson And The Olympians: Book 2

Percy Jackson has had a surprisingly quiet year- that is, until a dodgeball game on the last day of the year turns into a life or death battle. percy, along with a new friend, is launched back to cam... (more details)

Secret of the Spiritkeeper

Knights of the Silver Dragon: Book 1

Ages 8 to 10: When Wizard Zendric's spirit is taken, three friends must go into the dungeons to find the strange spiritkeeper. Traveling deep into the dungeons, they confront dangers and perils to try to save Zendr... (more details)

The Seeker

The Watchers Quest: Book 2

Ages Young Adult: Life is much different for Emma now than when she lived on her grandfather's bee farm. As a Watcher in training, she now spends most of her time at the Watchers Campan undergoing her training. Her Ear... (more details)

The Silver Child

The Silver Sequence: Book 1

Ages 10 and up: Six children are changing in mysterious ways. Each of them gains some sort of special power or interesting ability. Each of them is somehow forced to leave home, and are drawn to Cold Harbor for some ... (more details)

Silver World

The Silver Sequence: Book 3

The battle is no longer a distant thing. The Roar is here. The children of coldharbour must fight to save their world, even though it seems futile. Thomas continues to search for the child in need of ... (more details)

The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime

The Sisters Grimm: Book 4

Ages 9-12: Puck was seriously injured in the battle with the Jabberwocky, and Sabrina, Daphne, Granny Relda, and Mr. Canis take him to New York City to get help from Puck's family in the Faerie Kingdom. The Faer... (more details)

The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives

The Sisters Grimm: Book 1

Two sisters, Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, are sent to live with a woman who claims to be their grandmother. But- how could that be? Their father said that their grandmother was dead, that is, before he a... (more details)

Soul Stealer : The Alchemist's Son Part II

The Alchemists Son: Book 2

Ages 9-12: Pip and Tim once again must help Sebastian, an alchemist's son who has been in a sort of hibernation, when another of Sebastian's father's enemies appears with a vile plan... To steal the souls of man... (more details)

Spellfall

Ages 9-12: Natalie has lived her whole life next to Unicorn Woods, but she never suspects that within the woods is a portal to another world, a world called Earthaven where spells literally grow on trees. She al... (more details)

The Time Apprentice

When Old Father Tim, Greenwich's Guardian of time, feels a wobble in the earth's floor, he isn't overly concerned time has slight wibbles now and then. He has allowed for this. But then two events occ... (more details)

The Time Wreccas

The Guardians look after time for all people. Humans always rush around claiming that they do not have enough time, but no one thinks of guarding it. The Guardians do this, and in every region of the ... (more details)

Troll Fell

Ages 10 and up: When Peer Ulfsson's father dies, Peer is forced to go and live with his cruel and greedy Uncles, Baldur and Grim, in Trollsvik. Peer's life would be unbearable if it weren't for two new friends: a gi... (more details)

The Unseen

Ages 10-12: When Xandra rescues a beautiful, glowing white bird from hunters, the bird leaves behind a single white feather. Xandra finds out from a strange girl at school named Belinda that the feather is a key,... (more details)

The Wee Free Men

The Wee Free Men: Book 1

Tiffany Aching has just decided to become a witch when she grows up, and is down by the river with her little brother. Suddenly, two miniature blue men row up to her shouting, "Crivens! Gang awa' oot ... (more details)

A Wind in the Door

Time Quartet: Book 2

Ages 10-12: When Meg's younger brother, Charles Wallace, claims he sees dragons in the front yard, they don't know what to do. Charles Wallace has also been getting fairly sick lately, and getting out of breath e... (more details)

The Wizard of Oz

The Oz Series: Book 1

Ages 9-12: Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas, with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. One day, a cyclone carries off the house with Dorothy and her dog Toto inside. They find themselves in the Land of Oz, an incredibl... (more details)




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