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Maguire, Gregory

The Dream Stealer (gr. 3-5)
  Fleeing an evil wolf, a village of Russian peasants rebuilds their homes on a train.
J Fic Mahy, Margaret
Underrunners (gr. 4-6)
  A 10-year old girl and a mean stranger discover the Tuck family's secret of never growing old.

J Fic McGraw, Eloise The Moorchild (gr. 5+)  
  A "changling" child learns of her true identity and tries to find the human child whose place she had been given.

J Fic Napoli, Donna Jo The Magic Circle (gr. 3-6)  
The story of the witch in Hansel and Gretel and how she got that way.

J Fic Norton, Mary The Borrowers (gr. 3-6) 
  The lives of the little people are in jeopardy from the humans that they "borrow" things from for survival.

J Fic Pearce, Philippa Tom's Midnight Garden (gr. 4-6)  
  A boy is sent to his relatives' house and is unhappy until he enters a fantasy world in the night and helps a young woman from the past.

J Fic Pullman, Philip The Firework-Maker's Daughter (gr. 3-6)  
  Chulak and his talking white elephant help Lisa find the secret ingredients from a volcano so she can make fire-works like her father.

J Fic Pullman, Philip I Was A Rat (gr. 4-6)  
  A little boy turns London upside down when he appears at the home of an elderly couple and declares that he was once a rat.

J Fic Reid-Banks, Lynne The Indian in the Cupboard (gr. 4-6)
  A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard and a key for his birthday and has an adventure when the Indian comes alive in the cupboard.

J Fic Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone (gr. 4-7)  
 

Harry Potter, an orphaned wizard, goes to Hogwarts to learn all of the tricks of wizardry. This book has several sequels.

J Fic Russell, Barbara Blue Lightning (gr. 3-5)  
  Hit by lightning, a boy has an "out-of-body" experience, meets the spirit of his dead father and brings a troubled ghost back with him.
J Fic Sciezska, Jon
Knights of the Kitchen Table (gr. 3-5)
  The boys from the Time Warp trio find themselves back in the days of dragons and knights.

J Fic Sleator, William Among the Dolls (gr. 4-6)  
  Vicky is disappointed with the gift of a dollhouse but is terrified when she is drawn into it to confront the mean inhabitants.

J Fic Sleator, William
Marco's Millions (gr. 4-7) 
  Marco's younger sister's psychic powers leads him to a journey to other universes.
J Fic Soto, Gary Cat's Meow (gr. 3-5)
  Eight-year-old Graciela is amazed when her cat Pip begins speaking in Spanish.
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Waugh, Sylvia

The Mennyms (gr. 4-6)  
 

The Mennyms, life-size rag dolls, live in secret but their existence is challenged when the owner of the house decides to visit.

J Fic Winthop, Elizabeth Castle in the Attic (gr. 4-6)  
 

William is sent on a magical journey when he receives a toy castle.

J Fic Yep, Laurence The Magic Paintbrush (gr. 4-6)  
  Everything Steve paints with his new paintbrush becomes real.
J Fic Yolen, Jane The Pictish Child
(gr. 3-5)
  When Peter, Jennifer and Emily visit their grandmother, a retired witch, they find that the coven is involved in some dark magic.

   
   
 
 

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