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The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
This is a selection of science fiction and fantasy books suitable for children and young adults between the ages of 6 and 16. Titles more appropriate for younger readers are indicated with an asterix.
This list is far from exhaustive. It is intended only a place to start for those who would like to have a glimpse of far-off worlds and visions of possible futures or wander in the realms of imagination. Abrashkin, R. & Williams, Jay see Williams, Jay & Abrashkin, R. Adler, C. S. Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon* Aiken, Joan "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase" & sequels Alexander, Lloyd "The Prydain Chronicles:" The Book of Three The Black Cauldron The Castle of Llyr Taran Wanderer The High King The Foundling The Wizard in the Tree Anderson, PoulGuardians of Time The High Crusade A Midsummer Tempest Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul & Dickson, Gordon Earthman's Burden Hoka Star Prince Charlie Anthony, Piersthe "Xanth" series: A Spell for Chameleon The Source of Magic & sequels Asimov, Isaac I, Robot "Lucky Starr" series:* David Starr, Space Ranger* & sequels Asimov, Isaac & Asimov, JanetThe "Norby" series:* The Norby Chronicles & sequels* Asprin, RobertThe "Myth" series: Another Fine Myth & sequels Avi Midnight Magic Bright Shadow Babbitt, Natalie Tuck Everlasting Baker, E. D. The Frog Princess Dragon's Breath Banks, Lynn The Indian in the Cupboard* & sequels Barker, CliveAbarat Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War Barrie, J. M.Peter Pan (variant: Peter and Wendy)* Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens* Baum, L. Frank the "Oz" series: * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* & sequels. Series continued by Thompson and others. American Fairy Tales* Dot and Tot in Fairyland* The Enchanted Island of Yew* The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus* The Magical Monarch of Mo* The Master Key* Queen Zixi of Ix* The Sea Fairies* Sky Island* Bellairs, Johnthe "Johnny Dixon" series: The Curse of the Blue Figurine & sequels the "Lewis Barnavelt" series: The House with a Clock in Its Walls & sequels the "Anthony Monday" series: The Dark Secret of Weatherend & sequels Blish, James Cities in Flight Bond, Michael the "Paddington Bear" series* Booth, Martin Doctor Illuminatus Brackett, Leigh The Halfling and Other Stories The Long Tomorrow The Starman of Llyrdis The Sword of Rhiannon Bradbury, Ray The Halloween Tree* The Martian Chronicles R Is for Rocket S Is for Space Bradshaw, Gillian Beyond the North Wind The Dragon and the Thief The Land of Gold Brooks, WalterThe "Freddie the Pig" series:* The Clockwork Twins* Freddie and the Space Ship* Freddie and the Men from Mars* Freddie and the Baseball Team from Mars* Brown, FredricMartians, Go Home Bunting, Eve The Presence Burroughs, Edgar Rice the "Caspak Trilogy:" The Land That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot Out of Time's Abyss the "John Carter of Mars" series: A Princess of Mars & sequels the "Pellucidar" series: At the Earth's Core & sequels the "Tarzan" series: Tarzan of the Apes & sequels the "Venus" series: The Pirates of Venus & sequels The Cave Girl The Monster Men The Moon Maid Butterworth, Oliver The Enormous Egg* Cabot, Meg the "Mediator" series: Shadowland & sequels Avalon High Cameron, Eleanor The "Mushroom Planet/Mrs. Bass" series:* The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet & sequels* Carroll, LewisAlice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Cassedy, Sylvia Behind the Attic Wall* Charnas, Suzy M. The Bronze King The Silver Glove The Golden Thread Christopher, John The Tripods series: The White Mountains & sequels Clarke, Arthur C. Against the Fall of Night The Deep Range Dolphin Island A Fall of Moondust The Sands of Mars Tales from the White Hart Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Wish List Cooney, Caroline Both Sides of Time Out of Time Prisoner of Time For All Time Cooper, Susan "The Dark Is Rising" series: Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver on the Tree The Boggart King of Shadows Corlett, William "The Magician's House" quartet: The Steps Up the Chimney The Door in the Tree The Tunnel behind the Waterfall The Bridge in the Clouds Coville, BruceGoblins in the Castle Jennifer Murdley's Toad Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher The Monster's Ring The Skull of Truth various other titles Craik, Dinah Mulock The Little Lame Prince* Dahl, Roald Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* The Gremlins* James and the Giant Peach* The Witches* Danzinger, Paula This Place Has No Atmosphere de Camp, L. Sprague & Pratt, Fletcher The Compleat Enchanter del Rey, Lester Attack from Atlantis* Marooned on Mars* Mission to the Moon* Moon of Mutiny* Mysterious Planet* (under the pseudonym Kenneth Wright) Outpost of Jupiter* Rocket Jockey* Rockets to Nowhere* (under the pseudonym Phillip St. John) Step to the Stars* DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of Despereaux Dickinson, Peter The Changes Trilogy: The Weathermonger Heartsease The Devil's Children Dickson, Gordon The Dragon and the George Dickson, Gordon & Anderson, Poul see Anderson, Poul & Dickson, Gordon Disch, Thomas M. The Brave Little Toaster The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars Downer, Ann Hatching Magic The Dragon of Never-Was Doyle, Arthur Conan The Lost World Duane, Diane So You Want To Be a Wizard? Deep Wizardry High Wizardry A Wizard Abroad The Wizard's Dilemma The Book of Night with Moon To Visit the Queen (variant title- On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service) Eager, Edward Half Magic Knight's Castle Magic by the Lake Magic or Not? Seven Day Magic The Time Garden The Well Wishers Elboz, StephenA Handful of Magic A Land without Magic A Wild Kind of Magic Ende, Michael The Neverending Story Engdahl, Sylvia Enchantress from the Stars The Far Side of Evil This Star Shall Abide Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion The Sea Trolls Ferris, Jean Once upon a Marigold Fletcher, Susan Dragon's Milk The Flight of the Dragon Kyn Sign of the Dove Foster, Alan Dean the "Spellsinger" series: Spellsinger & sequels Funke, Cornelia Inkheart Inkspell Dragon Rider Gaiman, Neil Coraline Gannett, Ruth S. My Father's Dragon* Elmer and the Dragon* The Dragons of Blueland* Gardner, Sally, I, Coriander Grahame, Kenneth The Wind in the Willows* The Reluctant Dragon* Gurney, James Dinotopia Dinotopia: The World Beneath First Flight (there is also a series of Dinotopia books by various authors) Haddix, Margaret P. The Shadow Children sequence: Among the Hidden & sequels Hamilton, Edmond The Haunted Stars The Star Kings Harrison, Harry the "Stainless Steel Rat" series: The Stainless Steel Rat & sequels Hawthorne, Nathaniel Tanglewood Tales* The Wonder Book* Hearn, Lian Across the Nightingale Floor Grass for His Pillow Heinlein, Robert Between Planets Citizen of the Galaxy Farmer in the Sky Have Spacesuit Will Travel Orphans of the Sky Red Planet Rocketship Galileo The Rolling Stones Space Cadet The Star Beast Henderson, Zenna The Anything Box Holding Wonder Pilgrimage: The Book of the People The People: No Different Flesh Hoeye, MichaelTime Stops for No Mouse No Time like Show Time Hoover, H. M. Away Is a Strange Place to Be The Bell Tree The Delikon The Lost Star The Rains of Eridan The Shepherd Moon This Time for Darnkess Treasures of Morrow Howe, James Bunnicula* Howliday Inn* The Celery Stalks at Midnight* Nighty Nightymare* Return to Howliday Inn* Bunnicula Strikes Again* Ibbotson, Eva The Secret of Platform 13 The Great Ghost Rescue Which Witch? The Island of the Aunts Jones, Diana Wynne the "Chestomanci" series: Charmed Life The Magicians of Caprona The Lives of Christopher Chant Witch Week Mixed Magics Conrad's Fate the "Dalemark Quartet:" Cart and Cwidder Drowned Amulet The Spellcoats The Crown of Dalemark Dark Lord of Derkholm Year of the Griffin Hexwood Howl's Moving Castle Castle in the Air A Tale of Time City Juster, NortonThe Phantom Tollbooth Kaye, M. M. The Ordinary Princess Kendall, CarolThe Gammage Cup Kerr, P. B. Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure Key, AlexanderEscape to Witch Mountain* The Forgotten Door* The Incredible Tide* King-Smith, Dick The Water Horse Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book Koller, Jackie F. the "Dragonling" series:* The Dragonling* & sequels The Keepers: A Wizard Named Nell Lampman, Evelyn The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek* The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs* Lang, Andrew The Blue Fairy Book* The Green Fairy Book* The Red Fairy Book* the rest of the color fairy book series* Laumer, Keith the "Retief" series: Envoy to New Worlds & sequels Le Guin, Ursula The "Earthsea" series: The Wizard of Earthsea The Tombs of Atuan The Farthest Shore Tehanu Gifts Lee, Tanith The Castle of Dark The Dragon Hoard East of Midnight Black Unicorn Red Unicorn Gold Unicorn Shon the Taken Wolf Tower Wolf Star Wolf Queen Wolf Wing Leiber, Fritz A Pail of Air The Silver Eggheads L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time Levine, Gail C. Ella Enchanted The Two Princesses of Bamarre The Princess Tales: The Fairy's Mistake* The Princess Test* Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep* Cinderellis and the Glass Hill* For Biddle's Sake* Lewis, C. S. The "Chronicles of Narnia:" The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe & sequels Lofting, Hugh The "Doctor Doolittle" series: The Story of Doctor Doolittle & sequels MacDonald, George At the Back of the North Wind* The Princess and Curdie* The Princess and Goblin* McCaffrey, Anne Dragonflight Dragonquest The White Dragon Dragonsong Dragonsinger Dragondrums An Exchange of Gifts The Girl Who Heard Dragons If Wishes Were Horses No One Notices the Cat McKillip, Patricia The Changling Sea The Forgotten Beasts of Eld The House on Parchment Street the "Riddle-Master" trilogy: The Riddle-Master of Hed Heir of Sea and Fire Harpist in the Wind McKinley, Robin The Blue Sword The Hero and the Crown Milne, A. A. the "Winnie the Pooh" stories:* Winnie the Pooh* The House at Pooh Corner* Now We Are Six* When We Were Very Young* Murphy, Shirley R. The Dragonbards The Ivory Lyre Nesbit, E. The Story of the Treasure Seekers The Book of Dragons The Magic World Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet Nimmo, Jenny Snow Spider Midnight for Charlie Bone Charlie Bone and the Time Twister Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Niven, Larry All the Myriad Ways The Flight of the Horse A Gift from Earth Tales of Known Space Norton, Andre Catseye Daybreak -- 2250 A.D. Dragon Magic Galactic Derelict Huon of the Horn Key out of Time Operation Time Search Sargasso of Space The Sioux Spaceman Star Gate the "Witch World" series: Witch World & sequels many other titles Norton, Mary the "Borrowers" series:* The Borrowers Afield & sequels* Bedknob and Broomstick* O'Brian, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Ormondroyd, Edward David and the Phoenix* Time at the Top* O'Shea, Pat The Hounds of the Morrigan Paolini, Christopher Eragon Eldest Pierce, Meredith the "Darkangel" trilogy: The Darkangel A Gathering of Gargoyles The Pearl of the Soul of the World The Woman Who Loved Reindeer Pierce, Tamorathe "Song of the Lioness" series: Alanna: The First Adventure In the Hand of the Goddess The Woman Who Rides like a Man Lioness Rampant the "Protector of the Small" series: Page First Test Squire Lady Knight the "Immortals" series: Wild Magic Wolf-Speaker Emperor Mage Realms of the Gods Trickster's Choice Trickster's Queen the "Circle of Magic" series Pike, Christopher The Eternal Enemy The Immortal many other titles Pinkwater, Daniel The Blue Moose* Lizard Music* the "Magic Moscow" sequence* Magic Camera* Wizard Crystal* Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack the "Starchild" trilogy: The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star Pratchett, Terry The Carpet People* the "Nomes" trilogy:* Truckers* Diggers* Wings* Only You Can Save Mankind Johnny and the Dead Johnny and the Bomb The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents The Wee Free Men A Hat Full of Sky Pratt, Fletcher & de Camp, L. Sprague see de Camp, L. Sprague & Pratt, Fletcher Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass Rowling, J. K.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Quidditch through the Ages Sabin, E. RoseA School for Sorcery Sage, Angie Magyk: Septimus Heap, Book 1 Flyte: Septimus Heap, Book 2 Saint-Exupery, Antoine de The Little Prince* Schmitz, JamesTelzey Amberdon The Universe against Her The Witches of Karres Simak, Clifford All the Traps of Earth City Enchanted Pilgrimage The Fellowship of the Talisman The Goblin Reservation Shakespeare's Planet Way Station Sleator, William Green Futures of Tycho Intersteller Pig Singularity Smith, Sherwood Wren to the Rescue Wren's Quest Wren's War Crown Duel Court Duel Stein, R. L. the "Goosebumps" series* The "Fear Street" series Stevermer, Caroline & Wrede, Patricia see Wrede, Patricia & Stevermer, Caroline Strickland, Brad Dragon's Plunder Stroud, Jonathan Bartimaeus Trilogy: The Amulet of Samarkand The Golem's Eye Ptolemy's Gate Taylor, G. P. Shadowmancer Wormwood Tolkein, J. R. R. Farmer Giles of Ham Smith of Wootton Major The Hobbit Travers, P. L. Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Comes Back Mary Poppins Opens the Door Mary Poppins in the Park Turtledove, Harry the "Crosstime Traffic" series: Gunpowder Empire Curious Notions Vande Velde, Vivian Curses, Inc. Dragon's Bait The Changling Prince The Conjurer Princess A Hidden Magic User Unfriendly A Well-Timed Enchantment Verne, Jules From the Earth to the Moon and A Trip around It Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Wells, H. G. The Invisible Man The Time Machine The War of the Worlds Westall, Robert Ghost Abbey The Promise The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral The Watch House Yaxley's Cat White, E. B. Charlotte's Web* Stuart Little* Trumpet of the Swan* White, T. H. The Sword in the Stone Williams, Jay & Abrashkin, R. the "Danny Dunn" series:* Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint* & others Williamson, Jack & Pohl, Frederik see Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack Wollheim, Donald the "Mike Mars" series: Mike Mars, Astronaut & sequels Secret of Saturn's Rings Secret of the Martian Moons Secret of the Ninth Planet Wrede, Patricia the "Enchanted Forest" series: Talking to Dragons Dealing with Dragons Searching for Dragons Calling on Dragons the "Lyra" series: Shadow Magic Daughter of Witches The Harp of Imach Thessel Caught in Crystal The Raven Ring Mairelon the Magician Magician's Ward The Seven Towers Sorcery and Cecelia Wrede, Patricia & Stevermer, Caroline The Grand Tour Yep, Laurence the "Shimmer and Thorn" series: Dragon of the Lost Sea Dragon Steel Dragon Cauldron Dragon War The Rainbow People Sweetwater Yolen, Jane Dinosaur Dances* The Dragon's Boy Here There Be Dragons Here There Be Unicorns Here There Be Witches Here There Be Angels How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?* Merlin and the Dragons* the "Pit Dragon" trilogy: Dragon's Blood Heart's Blood A Sending of Dragons Tales of Wonder Wizard's Hall Zahn, Timothy Dragon and Thief Dragon and Soldier Dragon and Slave revised December 2007
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