Fantasy Stories - Grades 2-4

 A small storage room underneath the staircase leading down to Eric's basement is a magical doorway that takes Eric, Neal, and Julie to the magical land of Droon and to adventure. …More

 Life in the Lambchop family is sedate and serene--until a bulletin board falls on young Stanley Lambchop and he becomes . . . depth-disadvantaged! But does it get him down? No! Though he's only half-an-inch thick, Stanley manages to lead a very full life. …More

 A young mouse named Ralph looked out Of his mousehole in Room 215 of the Mountain View Inn. The new tenant of the room, a boy, was playing with a little motorcycle just the right size for a mouse. Ralph could hardly wait till the boy left the room. Hurriedly he scrambled up the telephone cord to the bedside table, where the motorcycle was parked. With growing excitement, Ralph mounted the handsome machine and grasped its handgrips. Suddenly the telephone rang, and the motorcycle with its rider rolled off the table into the metal wastebasket. Ralph was sure he was doomed to be thrown out with the trash. Instead, the mouse found an unexpected career as a motorcyclist opening up to him.

 This fanciful book by Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper gives a favorite fairy tale a magical spin in this story filled with oddly familiar characters including Saint George, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack of beanstalk fame. …More

Packed with energetic black-and-white drawings and plenty of action, this book tells the boisterous tale of a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt down the fiercest dragon in the land, but ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon. …More

 Beck, a fairy, has a talent for talking to animals, but that may not be enough when she tries to mediate a war between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks. …More

 After moving to a creepy old mansion, the Grace kids come to believe that an old book with hand-drawn pictures holds the key to all the weird things that have been going on. …More

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. …More

A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. …More

Now available individually in new digest-sized paperback editions, the first four books in Le Guin's magical series chronicle four young cats with wings who leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live. …More

Rachel and Kirsty helped the Rainbow Fairies get home, but now there's new trouble brewing in Fairyland. When Crystal the Snow Fairy, one of the seven Weather Fairies, loses the magic feather she uses, can Rachel and Kirsty help? …More

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. …More

The adventures of a tiny family who live within the walls of the Bigg's house. …More

 In this hilarious new chapter book series with a bite, the first story finds Mr. Talbot leading the kids in the Werewolf Club on a search for the only thing that cures werewolves: the magic pretzel of Alexander the Great. …More

Joe's been caught up in a book before, but this is ridiculous! Joe's Book, a gift from his magician uncle, doesn't just tell stories, it zaps Joe and his friends Sam and Fred right into the middle of them. And when these thoroughly modern kids meet King Arthur and become Knights of the Round Table, the result can only be thoroughly amusing mayhem. …More

An adventurous and heroic little mouse, with very human qualities, searches for his lost friend, the lovely bird Margalo.  …More