Children's Book Suggestions | Fantasy 2025

Some of our favorite fantasy books for readers in Grades 2-7, published in 2024 and early 2025. You can view more fantasy fiction books for kids in last year's Fantasy book list, the Level Up At Your Library gaming themed book list, or in our online catalog. This is a popular genre with kids (and many librarians!), so we also have Animal Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Mythology & Folklore book lists for young fantasy readers with very specific tastes.

Updated April 17, 2025
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
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Medusa
Marsh, Katherine
Paper Book
"You won't be able to stop turning pages . . . it is so stinking good!" --Colby Sharp, author of The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection From National Book Award finalist Katherine Marsh: Percy Jackson meets Wednesday Addams in this fantastical adventure about...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Kingdom riders
Denton, Shannon Eric
Paper Book
Race through an exciting and dangerous fantasy world on the back of a toad in this wildly original combination of Hunger Games and Amulet. Kayla is a peasant who cares little about the world outside her town or the wildly popular Kingdom Races. That is, until her...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

The happy shop
Olsen, Brittany Long
Paper Book
Welcome to the Happy Shop! Eleven-year-old Darcy just moved to a new country. She's feeling lost and misses her friends back home. That's when she stumbles upon a shop full of mysterious glowing jars labeled with things like "Picking up the last sweater on the rack and it's on sale" and...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Hilda and Twig hide from the rain
Pearson, Luke
Paper Book
A brand-new adventure featuring our favourite blue-haired heroine Hilda, and her trusty deerfox companion Twig. Hilda and Twig would never let a bit of rain get in the way of an adventure, but it's different when your forest exploration is interrupted by a BIG storm.

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Unicorn boy [1]
Roman, Dave
Paper Book
Go on a magical journey with this quirky, young reader's graphic novel about a boy who sprouts a unicorn horn and uses his newfound powers to help those in need! The first few years of Brian Reyes' life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Rune: the Tale of a Thousand Faces
Sanchez, Carlos
Paper Book
Chiri is a fun-loving super cook looking for fresh adventures and ingredients, but her love of exploration has landed her in some serious magical trouble and she's going to need all the help she can get to find home again. Chiri and best friend Dai live in an orphanage right next...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

You wish
Victor, Jeff
Paper Book
What if you found a genie's magic lamp, and rubbed it only to discover that YOU were the genie? Avery McLean is just your normal ten-year-old tomboy, helping her dad run a tiny, run-down gas station in the middle of the desert. With no friends and no fun to be had, Avery has been...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Impossible creatures
Rundell, Katherine
Paper Book
'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing.' - Michael Morpurgo There's a place where all the wildest stories began ... The first novel in the award winning and globally best-selling Impossible Creatures<...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Plain Jane and the mermaid
Brosgol, Vera
Paper Book
Eisner Award Winner A New York Times Best Children's Books of the Year An NPR Best Book of the Year From Anya's Ghost and Be Prepared author Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic graphic novel that flips every fairy tale you know on its head!...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)

Nell of Gumbling : my extremely tiny forest adventure
Steinkellner, Emma
Paper Book
Nell of Gumbling and her diary are back! From the bestselling author of The Okay Witch comes another adventure from a twelve-year-old girl living an ordinary life in a magical land. Will an epically enchanted camping trip gone wrong...turn out fantastically right? Welcome...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)


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