Fantasy Genre

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Fantasy Genre
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What Is A Fantasy?

• A story that cannot happen in the real world
• Events, settings, characters are outside the
  realm of possibility
• Examples talking animals, objects coming to
  life, giant or thumb sized people, imaginary
  worlds
• Many are in series format where one book is
  linked to another through characters, settings or
  both

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When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree
Church Social promising he can give people
exactly what they ask for, three young
believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes
true in the most unexpected way. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.4 Point Value 4
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• A Magic Shop Book." A timid boy, eager to
  frighten the school bully on Halloween night,
  acquires a magic ring and the power to change
  himself into a hideous monster.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.9 Point
Value 2
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• A Magic Shop Book." When an ordinary-looking
  fifth grader purchases a talking toad, she
  embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.6 Point
Value 4
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Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark,
Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves
involved in a series of extraordinary adventures
after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin
that seems to grant wishes.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.0 Point
Value 5.0
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• After eleven-year-old Louise makes a wish on
  the first evening star and her brother turns into
  a pig, she uses wishes, kisses, and spells to try
  to put things right again.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.6

Point Value 3
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• When granted her wish to be the most popular
  girl in school, Wilma, an eighth grader, forgets
  that she will graduate in three weeks and her
  popularity will vanish.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.5

Point Value 5
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• Thirteen-year-old Lizzie uses ingredients both
  ordinary and not so ordinary to make a series of
  magic potions, to the growing astonishment of her
  younger brothers.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.4

Point Value 8
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• Motivated by her quest to learn a legendary rope
  trick, the magician Princess Lidi and her troupe
  embark on a journey through Renaissance Italy
  that intertwines adventure, love, and mystery.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 3.9
  Point Value 6

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• Leon, a fourth grader at The Ethical School,
  tries to outwit the school bully and learn to sew
  for fanatical teacher Miss Cronheim, with
  unexpected help from his final project-- a doll
  with magical powers.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.9

Point Value 8
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• Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on
  his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the
  Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a
  competition among the witches of Todcaster, one
  of whom will marry him.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 6.2
  
• Point Value 7

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• Living alone in her wagon on the outskirts of a
  small town while waiting for her father's return,
  Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the
  ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 5.4
  Point Value 6

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• After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward,
  fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself
  a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek
  the means--and the self-confidence--to become
  human again.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.8
  Point Value 7

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Orphan Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose
as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the Evil Folk at
bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden
when she is taken to live with a wealthy family
in their manor by the sea. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.3
Point Value 6
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• When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to
  restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy
  and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight
  back with magic, technology, and a particularly
  nasty troll.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5
Point Value 9
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• A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in
  the same house for one hundred years is taken
  aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives
  and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4
Point Value 5
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• While at Bloor's Academy, Charlie Bone gets a
  surprise when Henry Yewbeam arrives from the year
  1916 and needs Charlie's help to stay alive.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.7
  Point Value 9

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• Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new
  apartment building and finds a psychic, talking
  lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled
  princess, ghosts, and other unusual characters.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 4.9
  Point Value 4

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• In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown
  lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone
  that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry
  of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with
  dragons, elves, and monsters.
• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Level 5.6
  Point Value 25

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• When the Grace children go to stay at their
  Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they
  discover a field guide to fairies and other
  creatures and begin to have some unusual
  experiences.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.2
Point
Value 1
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• With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all
  trying to get them, the Grace children turn to
  Great Aunt Lucinda for help.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.9

Point Value 1
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• When they are given an unusual comic book that
  allows them to travel in time, twelve-year-old
  Brian hopes that he and his friend will be able
  to replace his father's valuable Superman comic
  that Brian had ruined years before.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.4

Point Value 3
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• Miniature people who live in an old country
  house by borrowing things from the humans are
  forced to emigrate from their home under the
  clock.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.3

Point Value 5
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The story of Dorothy, a young girl who is
transported by a cyclone to the magical world of
Oz where she makes wonderful friends, battles
evil, and must face down a wizard to return home
to Kansas.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 7.0 Points
7.0
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• Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with
  a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at
  the edge of a Swedish village.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.2 Point
Value 4
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• Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers
  that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas
  dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte,
  decides to help him.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.4 Point
Value 5
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• Four English school children find their way
  through the back of a wardrobe into the magic
  land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion,
  to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed
  the land with eternal winter.

Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.7 Point
Value 6