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Where The Trees Grow Gumballs by G. Jack Lombardo (Jun 5, 2006)

Don't Call Me Clorox by G. Jack Lombardo (Mar 16, 2009)

 

 

Just Advnture Mystery and Fantasy

Anthony Horowitz1

Alex Rider

. Stormbreaker (2000)

 

Robert Muchamore 

1. The Escape (2009)

 

Andrew Klavan

Homelander

1. The Last Thing I Remember (2009)

 

Ridley Pearson
Steel Trapp
1. The Challenge (2008)

Clive Cussler (1931 - )
The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2006)
The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (2010)

 

 

 

M T Anderson
Octavian Nothing
1. The Pox Party (2006)
2. The Kingdom on the Waves (2008)

 

Howard Whitehouse

Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones

The Strictest School In The World (2006)

The Faceless Fiend (2007)

The Island of Mad Scientists (2008)

 

Jon Voelkel

Jaguar Stones (with Pamela Voelkel)

1. Middleworld (2007)

 

Philip Pullman

Two Crafty Criminals!: And how they were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang (2012)

 

Kevin Sylvester

Neil Flambe Capers

1. Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders (2010)

 

 

Sammy Keyes Wendelin Van Draanen

1. Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998)

 

Will HIll

Department 19

1. Department 19 (2011)

 

 

 

Mostly (Light Fantasy) Action and Adventure

 

 

Animal Tales in Modern Children's Lit

 

Roddy Doyle
Rover Adventures
The Giggler Treatment (2000)
Rover Saves Christmas (2001)
The Meanwhile Adventures (2004

 

Kathi Appelt

 The Underneath (2008)  

 

Berkeley Breathed , Allan Jones and Gary Chalk

 Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The Shocking Raid on Westminster (2009),

 

Susan Schade

Fog Mound

1. Travels of Thelonious (2006)

2. Faradawn (2007)

3. Simon's Dream (2008)

 

Richard Peck

Secrets At Sea

1. Secrets at Sea (2011)

2. The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail (2013)

 

Last Dogs Christopher Holt

Last Dogs

1. The Vanishing (2012)

 

 

Dragon Tales 

Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon

1. How to Train Your Dragon (2003)

2. How to Be a Pirate (2004)

3. How to Speak Dragonese (2005)

4. How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (2006)

 

How to Train Your Viking, by Toothless (2006)

 

5. How To Twist a Dragon's Tale (2007)

6. A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons (2007)

7. How to Ride a Dragon's Storm (2008)

8. How to Break a Dragon's Heart (2009)

9. How to Steal a Dragon's Sword (2011)

10. How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel (2012)

11. How to Betray a Dragon's Hero (2013)

12. The Incomplete Book of Dragons (2014)

 

Sarah L Thomson

Dragon's Egg (2007)

 

Patricia C Wrede

Enchanted Forest

1. Dragonsbane (1990)

     aka Dealing with Dragons

2. Searching for Dragons (1991)

     aka Dragon Search

3. Calling on Dragons (1993)

4. Talking to Dragons (1985)

 

Toby Forward

Flaxfield Quartet

1. Dragonborn (2011)

 

 

Unknown Dystopian Fiction 

Margaret Peterson Haddix  (1964 - )

Shadow Children

1. Among the Hidden (1998)

 

 

Emily Diamand
Flood Child
1. Flood Child (2008) aka Raiders' Ransom
2. Flood and Fire (2010

 

 

Paolo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker

1. Ship Breaker (2010)

2. The Drowned Cities (2012)

 

Jeff Hirsch
The Eleventh Plague (2011)
Magisterium (2012)

 

Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races (2011) 

 

Mostly Fairy Tales

 

Pig Detective Agency Bob Burke

1. The Third Pig Detective Agency (2009)

2. The Ho Ho Ho Mystery (2010)

3. The Curds and Whey Mystery (2012)

 

Whittington (2005) Alan Armstrong

Diary of a Fairy Godmother (2005) Esme Raji Codell

Falling In (2010) Frances O'Roark Dowell

A Kiss in Time (2009) Alex Flinn

 

Jessica Day George

Princess of the Midnight Ball

1. Princess of the Midnight Ball (2009)

2. Princess of Glass (2010)

3. Princess of the Silver Woods (2012)

 

Once Upon a Toad (2012) by Heather Vogel Frederick

The Princess Curse (2011) Merrie Haskell

Goose Chase (2001 )Patrice Kindl

Never After (2002) by Rebecca Lickiss

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (2013) Liesl Shurtliff

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (2000) Vivian Vande Velde

Wild Magic (2007) by Cat Weatherill

 

Fairy Tale Authors

 

Yolen Fairy Tales

Troll Bridge: A Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale (2006) Jane Yolen, and Adam Stemple

Gail Carson Levine
Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly (2006) Non-Fiction

Enchanted
1. Ella Enchanted (1997)
2. The Two Princesses of Bamarre (2001)
3. Fairest (2006)
4. Ever (2008)

The Fairy's Return and Other Princess Tales (2006)

Non-Series Fantasies and Adventures
A Tale of Two Castles (2011)

E Baker

Wide-Awake Princess                 
1. The Wide-Awake Princess (2010)
2. Unlocking the Spell (2012)

3. The Bravest Princess (2014)

 

A Question of Magic (2013)

 

Shannon Hale
1. The Goose Girl (2003)
2. Enna Burning (2004)
3. River Secrets (2006)
4. Forest Born (2009)

 

Ever After High

1. The Storybook of Legends (2013)

2. The Unfairest of Them All (2014)

3. A Wonderlandiful World (2014)

 

Book of a Thousand Days (2007)

 

Graphic Novels

Rapunzel's Revenge (2008) (with Dean Hale)

Calamity Jack (2010) (with Dean Hale)

 

 

P. W. Catanese

Further Tales Adventure

1. The Thief and the Beanstalk (2005)

2. The Brave Apprentice (2005)

3. The Eye of the Warlock (2005)

4. The Mirror's Tale (2006)

5. The Riddle of the Gnome (2007)

 

James Riley

 Half Upon a Time

1. Half Upon a Time (2011)

2. Twice Upon a Time (2012)

3. Once Upon the End (2013)

 

Christopher Healy and Todd Harris

Hero's Guide

1. Saving Your Kingdom (2012)

2. Storming the Castle (2013)

3. To Being an Outlaw (2014)

 

Shelby Bach (2012)

Ever Afters
1. Of Giants and Ice (2012)
2. The of Witches and Wind (2013)
3. Of Sorcery and Snow (2014)

 

Adam Gidwitz
1. A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010)
2. In a Glass Grimmly (2012)
3. The Grimm Conclusion (2013)

 

Soman Chainani

School for Good and Evil

1. The School for Good and Evil (2013)

2. A World without Princes (2014)

 

 

Some Faith Based Fantasy

Paul McCusker

Time Thriller

1. Ripple Effect (2008)

2. Out of Time (2009)

3. Memory's Gate (1996)"

 

Sigmund Brouwer

Robot Wars

1. Death Trap (2009)

2. Double Cross (2009)

3. Ambush (2009)

4. Counterattack (2009)

5. Final Battle (2009)" 

 

Christopher Miller

"Codebearers

1. Hunter Brown and the Secret of the Shadow (2008)

2. Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire (2009)

3. Hunter Brown and the Eye of Ends (2011)" 

 

Donita K Paul

Realm Walkers

1. One Realm Beyond (2014)

2. Two Renegade Realms (2014)

 

Jim Ware

Stone of Destiny

1. The Stone of Destiny (2011)

 

Jim Denney

Timebenders (2002)

Battle Before Time

Doorway to Doom

Invasion of the Time Trooper

Lost in Cydonia

 

Michael Sortino
Teddy Gyros: Kid Vampire Slayer: Book 1 It Begins (2008)

Teddy Gyros Kid Vampire Slayer, Book Two: Ghosts of the Grave (2012)

 

John McNichol

Young Chesterton Chronicles

The Tripods Attack! (2008)

The Emperor of North America (2011)

 

Brock Eastman

Quest for Truth

1. Taken (2011)

2. Risk (2012)

3. Unleash (2013)

 

Christan M. Frank

John Paul 2 High

Catholic, Reluctantly (Book 1) (Nov 3, 2011)

Trespasses Against Us (Book 2) (Nov 3, 2011)

Summer of My Dissent (Book 3) (Nov 1, 2011)

Undercover Papist (Book 4) (Mar 14, 2012)

 

Lisa Samson

The Enchanted Attic

Facing the Hunchback of Notre Dame (May 8, 2012)

Saving Moby Dick (Oct 9, 2012)

Dueling with the Three Musketeers (Jan 22, 2013)

Wrestling with Tom Sawyer (Aug 6, 2013)

 

FANTASY INFO 101

Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them Francine Prose

Humorous Fantasy 

Daniel Pinkwater

Hoboken

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (1977)

Looking for Bobowicz (2004)

The Artsy Smartsy Club (2005)

 

Fat Men from Space (1977)

 

Cuthbert Soup

Whole Nother Story
1. A Whole Nother Story (2009)
2. Another Whole Nother Story (2011)

3. No Other Story (2012)

 

Tom Angleberger

Fake Mustache: How Jodie O'Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Guy) Saved the World (2012)

Fake Mustache: How Jodie O'Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Guy) Saved the World (2012)

 

 

Lizzie K Foley

Remarkable (2012)

 

Into the Book

Nina Bernstein

Magic By the Book (2005) 

 

Roderick Townley

Sylvie Cycle

1. The Great Good Thing (2001)

2. Into the Labyrinth (2002)

3. The Constellation of Sylvie (2006)

 

Marissa Burt
Storybound
1. Storybound (2012)
2. Story's End (2013)

 

Far Rockaway (2011) Charlie_Fletcher

 

Just some Popular Fantasy Authors

Lois Duncan

Stranger with My Face (1981)

Locked in Time (1985)

 

Patricia C Wrede

1. Sorcery and Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (1988)

 

Philip Pullman  (Golden Compass)

Spring-heeled Jack (1989)
The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995)
The Scarecrow and His Servant (2004)

 

Bruce Coville

Magic Shop
1. The Monster's Ring (1982) aka Russell Troy, Monster Boy

2. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (1991)

 

Patrick Carman
Land of Elyon
1. The Dark Hills Divide (2003)

 

Thirteen Days to Midnight (2010)

 

Missing Time Powers

Scott Westerfeld

Midnighters
1. The Secret Hour (2004)

 

Dianne K. Salerni and David McClellan

Eighth Day

1. The Eighth Day (2014)

 

 

Mythical Mermaids, Genies and Others

Katherine Applegate

The One and Only Ivan (2012)

 

Linda Chapman

The Last Phoenix (2010)

 

Jneulia Golding

Companions

1. The Secret of the Sirens (2006)

 

Michelle Lovric

Undrowned Child

1. The Undrowned Child (2009)

2. The Mourning Emporium (2010)

3. Talina in the Tower (2012)

 

 

On A Quest

Anna Fienberg

Tashi: The Complete Collection (2013) (with Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble)

 

The Big Big Big Book of Tashi

 

Andrew Jacobson

Familiars (with Adam Jay Epstein)

1. The Familiars (2010) aka Animal Wizardry

2. Secrets of the Crown (2011)

3. Circle of Heroes (2012)

4. Palace of Dreams (2013)

 

Andrew Jacobson

Starbounders (with Adam Jay Epstein)

1. Starbounders (2013)

2. Rebellion (2014)

 

John Stephens

Books of Beginning
1. The Emerald Atlas (2011

 

Journey to unknown Other Worlds 

 

Tony Abbot

Secrets of Droon

1. The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet (1999)

2. Journey to the Volcano Palace (1999)

3. The Mysterious Island (1999)

 

Garry Kilworth

Attica (2006)

 

Clive Barker

Abarat

1. Abarat: The First Book of Hours (2002)

 

Elizabeth Kay
The Divide (2003)
Back to the Divide (2004)
The Jinx on the Divide (2005)

 

 

Jane Johnson
Eidolon Chronicles
1. The Secret Country (2005)
2. The Shadow World (2006)
3. Dragon's Fire (2007)

 

Elizabeth Haydon
Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme

1. The Floating Island (2006)

2. The Thief Queen's Daughter (2007)

3. The Dragon's Lair (2008)

4. The Tree of Water (2014)

 

Kaza Kingsley

Erec Rex 

1. The Dragon's Eye (2006)

2. The Monsters of Otherness (2007)

3. The Search for Truth (2008)

4. The Three Furies (2010)               

5. The Secret of Ashona (2012)

 

Mike Wilks
Mirrorscape
1. Mirrorscape (2007)
2. Mirrorstorm (2008)
3. MirrorShade (2009)

 

Puddlejumpers 2008 / Mark Jean and Christopher C. Carlson.

 

J. Scott Savage

Farworld 

1. Water Keep (2008)

2. Land Keep (2009)

3. Air Keep (2012)

4. Fire Keep (2014)

 

Scott Mebus
Gods of Manhattan 2008
Spirits in the Park 2009
The Sorcerer's Secret 2010

 

Sam Llewellyn
Monsters of Lyonesse
1. The Well Between the Worlds (2009)
2. Darksolstice (2010)

 

James Rollins

Jake Ransom
1. Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow (2009)

2.Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx (2010)

 

Frank McKinney

Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes and the Good Luck Circle (2009)

China Mieville

Un Lun Dun (2007)

 

Matt Myklusch 

Jack Blank
1. Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation (2010)
2. The Secret War (2011)
3. The End of Infinity (2012)

 

J. M. Dematteis

Imaginalis (2010)

 

Rachel Neumeier

The Floating Islands (2011)

 

 

Transformers Paranormal

K L Going

The Garden of Eve (2007)

 

Dale E Basye

Heck

1. Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (2008)

2. Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck (2009)

3. Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck (2010)

4. Fibble: The Fourth Circle of Heck (2011)

5. Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck (2012)

6. Precocia: The Sixth Circle of Heck (2013)

7. Wise Acres: The Seventh Circle of Heck (2013)

 

 

Unfamiliar Schools

 

Henry H. Neff and Brandon Dorman
Tapestry
1. The Hound of Rowan (2007)
2. The Second Siege (2008)
3. The Fiend and the Forge (2010)
4. The Maelstrom (2012)

5. The Red Winter (2014)

 

Dan Elish

The School for the Insanely Gifted (2011)

 

Shelby Bach

Ever Afters

1. Of Giants and Ice (2012)

2. The of Witches and Wind (2013)

3. Of Sorcery and Snow (2014)

 

 

 

 

Superheroes, Detectives, and other Action Heroes

Andy Briggs

 

Villain.Net

1. Council of Evil (2008)

2. Dark Hunter (2008)

3. Power Surge (2009)

4. Collision Course (2011)

 

Hero.Com

1. Rise of the Heroes (2008)

2. Virus Attack (2008)

3. Crisis Point (2009)

4. Chaos Effect (2010)

 

Michael Carroll

New Heroes / Quantum Prophecy

1. The Quantum Prophecy (2006) aka The Awakening

2. Sakkara (2006) aka The Gathering

3. Absolute Power (2007) aka The Reckoning

Footsoldiers: A Super Human Clash (2012)

 

New Heroes / Quantum Prophecy Prequel Phase

1. Super Human (2010)

2. The Ascension: A Super Human Clash (2011)

3. Stronger: A Super Human Clash (2012)

4. Hunter: A Super Human Clash (2014)

 

Adam Christopher

Empire State

1. Empire State (2011)

2. The Age Atomic (2013)

 

Seven Wonders (2012)

 

Kate DiCamillo
Flora and Ulysses (2014)

 

 

Victoria Forester

The Girl Who Could Fly (2008)

 

 

 

Marion G. Harmon

Wearing the Cape (Apr 1, 2011)

Villains Inc. (Wearing the Cape) (Dec 29, 2011)

Wearing the Cape: The Beginning (Nov 5, 2012)

Omega Night (Wearing the Cape) (Jan 1, 2013)

Young Sentinels (Wearing the Cape) by Marion G. Harmon (Dec 14, 2013)

 

Tom King

A Once Crowded Sky (2012)

 

 

 

Jeramey Kraatz

Cloak Society

1. The Cloak Society (2012)

2. Villains Rising (2013)

3. Fall of Heroes (2014)

 

Wesley King

Vindico

1. The Vindico (2012)

2. The Feros (2013)

 

Claude Lalumière (Editor)

Super Stories of Heroes & Villains (2013)

 

R.A. McDonald

 Ada Legend of a Healer (2011)  

 

Nick C. Piers

The City of Smoke and Mirrors: An Armadillo Mystery (2013)

 

V E Schwab

Vicious

1. Vicious (2013)

Warm Up (2013)

 

Phyllis Shalant

The Great Cape Rescue (The Society of Super Secret Heroes) (2007) by

 

Ian Tregillis

Raybould Marsh

1. Bitter Seeds (2010)

1.5. What Doctor Gottlieb Saw (2011)

2. The Coldest War (2012)

3. Necessary Evil (2013)

 

Mark Walden

H.I.V.E.

1. H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education (2006)

2. The Overlord Protocol (2007)

3. Escape Velocity (2008)

4. Dreadnought (2009)

5. Rogue (2010)

6. Zero Hour (2010)

7. Aftershock (2011)

8. Deadlock (2013)

 

Vampires, Pirates, and Mermaids

 

L A Meyer
Bloody Jack Adventures

1. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy (2002)

 

 

Gideon Defoe

Pirates!

1. The In an Adventure with Scientists (2004)

2. In an Adventure with Whaling (2005)

3. In an Adventure with Communists (2006)

4. In an Adventure with Napoleon (2008)

5. In an Adventure with the Romantics (2012)

 

Vampirates by Justin Somper

1. Demons of the Ocean (2005)

 

Michael Sortino

Teddy Gyros: Kid Vampire Slayer: Book 1 It Begins (2008)

Teddy Gyros Kid Vampire Slayer, Book Two: Ghosts of the Grave (2012)

 

Catherine Jinks

The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (2009)

The Reformed Vampire Support Group (2009)

 

 

 

Time Travels

Jason Cockcroft

Counter Clockwise (2009)

 

Art Corriveau.
13 Hangmen (2012)

 

Garry Kilworth

The Hundred-towered City (2008)

 

Anne Lindbergh

Pineapple Place

1. The People in Pineapple Place (1982)

2. The Prisoner of Pineapple Place (1988)

 

Margaret Mahy

Maddigan's Fantasia (2005)

 

Linda Sue Park

Archer's Quest (2006)

 

The Time Hackers (2005) GARY PAULSEN

 

 

Justin Richards

Time Runners

Freeze-Framed (2007)

 

Alex Scarrow

TimeRiders

1. TimeRiders (2010)

 

Harry Turtledove

Crosstime Traffic

  Gunpowder Empire (2003)

 

Golden Hour Maiya Williams

1. The Golden Hour (2004)

2. The Hour of the Cobra (2006)

3. The Hour of the Outlaw (2007)

 

Todd Fonseca

The Time Cavern (2008)

 

Angela Sage Larsen

Fifties Chix

1. Travel to Tomorrow (2011)

 

Art Corriveau.
13 Hangmen (2012)

Chad Morris (2013)

Cragbridge Hall

1. The Inventor's Secret (2012)

2. The Avatar Battle (2014)

 

Thomas Taylor

Haunters (2012)

 

Amy Herrick

The Time Fetch (2013)

 

Transformers or Shapeshifters

 

Wolven by Di Toft (1958 - )

1. Wolven (2009)

2. The Twilight Circus (2010)

3. Bad Wolf Rising (2011)

 

Steve Feasey

Mutant City (2014)

 

Young Adult

Deathwatch (1972) Robb White

No way of telling   (1972) Emma Smith