Today’s Book HookCan a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? Read the Graveyard Book and find out!

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Fantasy Genre

What is a fantasy?

Fantasies can be stories that involve beings and events that could not exist in real life. These works may begin realistically but soon turn into stories that could never really happen.  

Characteristics of Fantasy• Use of time travel• Imaginary beings from other planets• Animals that talk or act human• Fantastic creatures may be part of a fantasy –

unicorns, trolls, elves, etc.• Sometimes characters speak a fantasy

language.• Conflicts involve magic or impossible

strategies.

Magical objects may be used.

• Mirrors

• Rings

• Cloaks

• Lamps

Types of Fantasy

• High Fantasy – Epic type Hero saves the world.

• Game Related – stories based on movie or video game

• Historical Fantasy – Magic set in past era or age.

Heroic Fantasy - King Arthur• Tales of a great king who

fought off invaders from the time the Romans left Britain.

• Wizard Merlin helps and guides.

• An enchanted sword Excalibur.

• The Round Table & Holy Grail.

Heroic Fantasy – The Hobbit

• Magic Ring• Little man, Bilbo

Baggins, challenged to rescue a treasure from a dragon.

• Author: John Tolkien

Heroic Fantasy – Chronicles of Narnia

• Magical land called Narnia.

• Travel back through wardrobe (closet).

• Heroes – Aslan the Lion, children

• Villains – witch, evil minions.

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From the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie comes the moving story of an eleven-year-old-boy, Rob Horton, who finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father. With the help of his new friend, Rob must decide what to do with his discovery and at the same time come to terms with his past.

Before the walls went up ... there were adventures. Follow young Thomas Warvold and his brother as they journey through Elyon, discovering new mysteries, new challenges, and new magical creatures that will alter the history of the land.

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Lights shine in the city of Ember—but at the city limits the light ends, and darkness takes over. Out there in the Unknown Regions, the darkness goes on forever in all directions. Ember—so its people believe—is the only light in the dark world. And now the lights of the city are beginning to fail. Is there a way to save the people of Ember? No one knows. But Lina Mayfleet has found a puzzling document, and Doon Harrow has made discoveries down in the Pipeworks. With these clues, they start their search.

When their peaceful valley is threatened with danger, Firedrake, a silver-skinned dragon, and his sidekick, Sorrel, set off to find the mythical Rim of Heaven -- the only place in the world where dragons can be safe forever. Along the way they meet an orphaned boy named Ben who volunteers to be their navigator and quickly becomes their friend. But when they learn that an evil dragon hunter is on their trail, their quest quickly turns into a battle for survival. As the adventure draws to a breathtaking close, it soon becomes clear that one person's fate will decide the destiny of them all.

Mo, a gentle bookbinder with an extraordinary secret, and his daughter Meggie love books, yet he has not read aloud to her since her mother disappeared years ago. After a mysterious stranger visits them, Mo tells Meggie they must go into hiding. But why? - and from whom?

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Lloyd Alexander

• Time Cat• Black Cauldron• The Cat who Wished

to be a Man• The King’s Fountain

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This sequel to May Bird and the Ever After picks up the story with Ellen Bird mourning the loss of her daughter. Meanwhile May and her pet, Somber Kitty, find themselves on a spectral train in Ever After.

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When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped.And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess?

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun for ransom.

But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit).

For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back …

After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home

of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange

house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose

her, follow her into an underground world inhabited

by demons, robots, and talking animals.

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Natalie Babbitt

This is the story of the Tuck family, who are doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring.

Lynn Reid BanksThe Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian -- Little Bull -- who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboard For Omri, it is a dream come true when the plastic American Indian he locks into the old cupboard comes to life. Little Bull is everything an Indian brave should be -- proud, fearless and defiant. But being in charge of a real, live, human being is a heavy responsibility, as Omri soon discovers. And when his best friend, Patrick, is let in on the secret, he soon realizes that life-changing decisions lie ahead.

Frank L. Baum: The Wizard of Oz

• Dorothy is whisked from her home in Kansas to the Magical land of Oz.

• Meets fantastic characters – flying monkeys, tin man, cowardly lion, scarecrow.

Mary Norton• The Borrowers

• The Borrowers Afloat

• The Borrowers Afield

• Bedknobs and BroomsticksA race of tiny people who live beneath the floor of a proper human kitchen make friends with a young boy, and begin to learn about the world above their heads, from which they have borrowed the furniture and tools.

Lemony Snicket – Series of Unfortunate Events

• Bad Beginning• Austere Academy• Miserable Mill• Reptile Room

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E.B. White

Stuart Little

Charlotte’s Web

Trumpet of the Swan

Collins: Gregor the Overlander

• 11 year old Gregor and his 2 year old sister are pulled into an underground world.

• They must battle men, bats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by an ancient prophecy.

Kate DiCamilloThis is the story of Despereaux, a mouse in love with music, stories and a princess. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro and a serving girl called Miggery Sow. These characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a dungeon and into each other's lives.

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Please remember…during check out time…

• Check out books or magazines.

• Find a quiet place to sit and read or work on puzzles.

• Do Library Crew duties if you are on Library Crew.

• Use a computer to look up books or go onto programs we have used in class.

• Remember Quiet Voices.