Modern Fantasy Books

Illustrator: Tedd Arnold
Publisher: Dial (May 14, 2009)
Reading Level: 2.8
Interest Level: K-3

Green Wilma the frog is mistaken for an alien child and taken on a trip through space. **

Illustrator: Lincoln Agnew
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (August 25, 2009)
Reading Level: 2.5
Interest Level: Grades K-3

Harry has an out-of-this-world adventure when he goes in search of his favorite stuffed animal, Horsie, after it is carried away by a bubble. **

Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (September 1, 2009)
Reading Level: NA
Interest Level: K-3

Aesop's fable lion and mouse told with a different twist. A picture tells a thousand words. The colorful illustrations in this children's picture book capture a beautiful story about a mouse and a lion. **

Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH (October 7, 2008)
Reading Level: 4.4
Interest Level: Grades 3-6

Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister. **

Illustrator: Sal Murdocca
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; c2008
Reading Level: 3.7
Interest Level: Grades 3-6

One book out of a great series of books! Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness—secrets they need to save Merlin. This time, the Magic Tree House takes them to the one continent they haven’t visited before: Antarctica! What can they hope to learn about happiness in such a barren place? Only the penguins know for sure . . . Jack and Annie are about to find out!

This book is part of a series of "Magic Tree House Books" **

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (January 1, 2010
Reading Level: 4.1
Interest Level: Grades 3-6

After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.**

Illustrator: Stephen Player
Publisher: HarperCollins (September 30, 2008)
Reading Level: 4.5
Interest Level: Grades 5-8

Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue guys, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.**

Illustrator: Dave Mckean
Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (September 28, 2010)
Reading Level: 5.3
Interest Level: Grades 5-8

The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

Illustrator: Kelly Murphy
Publisher: Square Fish; First Edition edition (March 30, 2010)
Reading Level: 5.3
Interest Level: Grades 5-8

After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the process discover that Marvin is quite the artist.**

Publisher: Puffin (March 23, 2010)
Reading Level: 6.0
Interest Level: Grades 5-8

Savvy is about the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.**