Fantasy for Year 4,5,6

Animorphs

Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer)


The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. 

Percy finds out that he is the son of a Greek god, and is suddenly thrust into a weird world where Greek mythology meets our modern world.
#1 The Lightening Thief

#2 The Sea of Monsters

#3 The Titan's Curse

 

DuPrau's City of Ember, People of Sparks

 

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
The series is called Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
A boy loses his father to a demonic bear and meets up with a wolf whom he realizes he can talk to. 
 

**The series is called The Edge Chronicles
lots of fighting with gnomes and a tree that might eat you.  The main character is Twig and he is quite captivating.


***The Warriors Series by Erin Hunter the first book is called Into the Wild
a cool fantasy about 4 clans of cats that begin to clash with each other after years of living together.

Missing Magic by Emma Laybourn
Ned has no magic in a world where everyone else does.  When he goes to magic school things to learn magic, things just get worse for him.


The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. A  "fractured fairy tale" series (and it has dragons!)

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. An older series, but one with classic good vs. evil and Arthurian themes.

The Pit Dragon series by Jane Yolen. In this case, dragons are an alien life-form on a different planet, but it's a good sci-fi series.

Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series (so far, titles include "The Wee Free Men," "A Hat Full of Sky," and "Wintersmith"). The story of Tiffany Aching, who wants to become a witch, and is learning the hard way; rescuing her brother from the Queen of the Fairies, fighting a creature who took over her body, and making sure that Winter goes away and Summer comes again.

The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens series by Tamora Pierce. The story of four outcasts who learn to control their magic together and become friends.
 

The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. Will probably appeal to kids who liked Harry Potter, but it's got a much better moral basis and more realistic characters. Might be a little "old," but content-wise is appropriate for fifth and sixth grade
 

*** Emily Rodda series - Dragons of  Deltora, Deltora Quest,  Shadowlands,  Rowan, Fairy Realm


Charlie Bone series by Nimmo


Into the Wild by Sarah Durst.  Although the main character is older  the book would still be very appropriate for 5th graders.  Into the Wild is about a young girl named Julie who lives in the real world.  But her mom is Rapunzel and her grandma is the wicked witch from the fairy tales.  Her mom and most of the other fairy tale characters had escaped from an entity known as "The Wild".  But now the wild is back and it wants to trap not only Rapunzel but Julie as well.

 

Dragons: truth, myth and legend by David Passes
Hatching Magic  by Ann Downer
Dragon Keeper by Carole Wilkinson
Patricia Wrede's series
Lawrence Yep's dragon books

Stewart_ The Mysterious Benedict Society

Osborne_ Night of the new magicians

Ransom_ Time Spies series

Winterson_ Tanglewreck

Anderson_ Whales on stilts!

Pratchett_ Only you can save mankind

Kay_ The Divide

Lasky_ Guardians of Ga’Hoole series

Mucci_ Bram Stoker: Dracula (graphic novel)

Poulsen_ The Book of Vampire (Salt & Pepper Chronicles, 4)

Greenburg_ Secrets of Dripping Fang series

Ruby_ The Chaos king

Eldest and Eragon--Paolini

Pendragon Series by MacHale

**Redwall series by Jacques

The Keys to the Kingdom series starting with Mister Monday (by Garth Nix)

**Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage

Beyond the Deep Woods by Paul Stewart

 

The Divide by Elizabeth Kay (also a series. Magic, alternate universe, etc.)
 

***Spiderwick Chronicles (series)

 
Cornelia Funke: Dragon Rider, Inkspell, Inkheart

Coraline by Gaiman



**The Sisters Grimm.  


Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology handbook by Drake
Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kingsley

Gregor the Overlander series (by Suzanne Collins


The Bartemaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud is wonderful


Molly Moon books by Byng

Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer

Gregor the Overlander books (there are 5) by Suzanne Collins

Some boys really love the Merlin books by T.A. Barron there are 5 of
them as well, Lost Years of Merlin, Wings of Merlin, etc

Gary Paulsen's Time Hackers - humour



Bruce Coville


            Patrick Carmen's Books-- the Atherton: House of Power and the Land of Elyon series


  Ender's Game and the rest of that series from Orson Scott Card. Many jr. high boys could probably tolerate the violence

            Gail Carson Levine

            They are older, but Robin McKinley's "Hero and the Crown" and the sequels
 

The Keys of Time series starting with Mister Monday.



The Naming", "The Riddle", byAlice Croggen

 

Here there be Dragons--James Owen

Kate McMullan's Dragonslayer Academy:  Class Trip to the Cave of Doom


Books by Tamora Pierce:  She has several Quartets dealing with Magic

Circle of Magic is one quartet

The Circle opens is the follow up quartet


a series by Michael Scott called the adventures of the immortal Nicholas Flamel: the Achemyst is book one


Bruce Coville's alien series:  My Teacher is an Alien


The Sight (about wolves)

 

Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology handbook by Drake
Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kingsley


Get Rich Quick Club by Dan Gutman
Lloyd Alexander titles


"Mistmantle" by M.I. Mc Allistar

Candy Shop War, Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Leven Thumps series by Obert Skye