Brigidine College Library

Assignment Pathfinder

 

  Year 9 English

 

Fantasy

Here are some popular fantasy novels, many of them from series. The hyperlinked titles and series will take you straight to a web site which will give you more information about the book. Most of these are from Amazon.com, Dymocks and other sites which give you insight into the book.

 

        Author

                                             Title

             Type

Alexander, Lloyd

The Chronicles of Prydain series:

1.      The Book of Three

2.      The Black Cauldron

3.      The Castle of Llyr

4.      Taran Wanderer

5.      The High King

Witches & wizards

Almond, David

Kit’s Wilderness

Ghost story

Applegate, K.A.

Animorphs series

Shape shifting

Avi

Bright Shadow enacted

Midnight Magic

Witches & wizards

Witches & wizards

Banks, Lyn Reid

The Indian in the Cupboard

Magic

Barron, T. A.

The Lost Years of Merlin series:

1.      The Lost Years of Merlin

2.      The Seven Songs of Merlin

3.      The Fires of Merlin

Witches & wizards

Arthurian legend

Baum, L. Frank

The Wizard of Oz

Witches and Wizards

Bawden, Nina

The Witch’s Daughter

Witches & wizards

Book, Paula

Sasscat

Witches & wizards

Brooks, Karen

It’s Time, Cassandra Klein

Alternate world

Carleton, Barbee

The Mystery of the Witch’s Bridge

Witches & wizards

Mystery

Carmody, Isobelle

Obernewtyn Chronicles:

1.      Obernewtyn

2.      The Farseekers

3.      Ashling

4.      The Keeping Place

The Gathering

Scatterlings

Post-apocalyptic (disaster) fantasy

 

 

 

Supernatural

Other worlds

Caswell, Brian

Merryl of the Stones

Time Travel

Colfer, Eoin

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (sequel)

Fairies & magic

Humour

Cooper, Susan

The Boggart

The Dark is Rising series:

1.      Over Sea, Over Stone

2.      The Dark is Rising

3.    Greenwitch

4.    The Grey King

5.    Silver on the Tree

Witches & wizards

Witches & wizards

Cormier, Robert

Fade

Invisibility

Cross, Gillian

Wolf

Supernatural

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

The Arthur series:

1.      Arthur: The Seeing Stone

2.      At the Crossing-Places

Arthurian fantasy

Dahl, Roald

The Witches

Witches & wizards

Dickinson, Peter

Healer

Psychic powers

Duane, Diane

Tale of the Five series:

1.      The Door into Fire

Sorcery & magic

Garner, Alan

The Owl Service

Welsh mythology

Gee, Maurice

The Half Men of O

Other  worlds

Harland, Richard

Heaven and Earth trilogy:

1.      Ferren and the Angel

2.      Ferren and the White Doctor

Angels

Hartnett, Sonya

Forest (winner of 2002 CBC Book of the Year)

Animal fantasy

Hathorn,  Libby

Ghostop series:

1.      Ghostop1: Double Sorrow

2.      Ghostop 2: Twice the Ring of Fire

 

Ghosts

Ghosts

Heffernan, John

CBD

Post-apocalypse (disaster fantasy)

Howarth, Lesley

Weather Eye

Psychic powers

Hunter, Molly

The Kelpie’s Pearls

The Thirteenth Member

Witches & wizards

Witches & wizards

Ibbotson, Eva

The Secret of Platform 13

Which Witch?

Magic

Witches & wizards

Ipcar, Dahlov

A Dark Horn Blowing

Magic

Jacques, Brian

Redwall series (contains many books)

Animal fantasy

Jinks, Catherine

Which Bank?

Magic

Jones, Dianna Wynne

The Worlds of Chrestomanci series:

1.      Charmed Life

2.      The Lives of Christopher Chant

3.      The Magicians of Caprona

4.      Witch Week

Magic

Kelleher, Victor

Master of the Grove

Brother Night

The Red King

The Makers

The Ivory Trail

Quest fantasy

Quest fantasy

Quest fantasy

Quest fantasy

Mind travel/ESP

Lasenby, Jack

Because We Were the Travellers

Other worlds

Lawrence, Louise

The Earth Witch

Welsh mythology

LeGuin, Ursula

The Wizard of Earthsea series:

1.      A Wizard of Earthsea

2.      The Tombs of Atuan

3.      The Farthest Shore

4.      Tehanu

Witches & wizards

Lewis, C.S.

The Chronicles of Narnia series:

1.      The Magician’s Wardrobe

2.      The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

3.      The Horse and his Boy

4.      Prince Caspian

5.      The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

6.      The Silver Chair

7.      The Last Battle             

Witches & wizards

Lowry, Lois

The Giver

Utopian society

Lucket, Dave

Tenabran Trilogy:

                          1.            A Dark Winter

                          2.            A Dark Journey

                          3.            A Dark Victory

 

Epic fantasy

Quest fantasy

Magic

Mahy, Margaret

Dangerous Spaces

The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance

The Tricksters

The Haunting

Ghosts

Supernatural

Supernatural

Ghosts

Manley, Ruth

The Plum Rain Scroll

Japanese mythology

Masson, Sophie

Clementine

Fairy tale

McKinley, Robyn

Damarian series:

1.      The Blue Sword

2.      The Hero and the Crown

3.      Deerskin

Witches & wizards

Witches & wizards

McRobbie, David

Mum, Me the 19th

This Book is Haunted

Time slip

Ghosts & haunting

Nicholson, William

The Wind on Fire series:

1.      The Wind Singer

2.      Slaves of the Mastery

3.      Firesong

Quest fantasy

Nix, Garth

 

 

 

 

 

              

              

The Seventh Tower series:

1.      The Fall

2.      Castle

3.      Aenir

4.       Above the Veil

5.      Into Battle

Sabriel

Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr (sequel to Sabriel)

The Ragwitch

Medieval fantasy

Magic

 

 

 

 

Epic fantasy/Good & evil/Magic

Time slip/mythical world

Odgers, Sally

Candle Iron

 

Amy Amaryllis

 

Witches & wizards

Quests

Magic/Identity switching

Park, Ruth

My Sister Sif

Sea animals fantasy

Pierce, Tamora

Song of the Lioness series:

1.      Alanna: The First Adventure

2.      In the Hand of the Goddess

3.      The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

4.      Lioness Rampant

Medieval fantasy

Pullman, Philip

His Dark Materials series:

1.      Northern Lights (called ‘Golden Compass’ in US).

2.      The Subtle Knife

3.      The Amber Spyglass

Alternate world

Pulman, Felicity

Shalott

Return to Shalott (sequel)

Arthurian fantasy

Time travel

Pratchett, Terry

The Bromeliad series:

1.      Truckers

2.      Diggers

3.      Wings

Little people

Rodgers, Mary

Freaky Friday

Identity switch

Rodda, Emily

Rowan of Rin series:

1.      Rowan of Rin

2.      Rowan and the Travellers

3.      Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystals

4.      Rowan and the Zebak

Deltora Quest series:

1.      The Forests of Silence

2.      The Lake of Tears

3.      City of the Rats

4.      The Shifting Sands

5.      Dread Mountain

6.      The Maze of the Beast

7.      The Valley of the Lost

8.      Return to Del

Quest fantasy

 

 

 

 

Quest fantasy

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter series:

1.      Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

2.      Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

3.      Harry Potter