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
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Vanya and the wild hunt
Mandanna, Sangu
Paper Book
Eleven-year-old Vanya Vallen can talk to books. But more importantly, the books talk back.When her family is attacked by a monster she believed only existed in legends, Vanya discovers that her parents have been keeping secrets, and that monsters do exist. Soon, she is whisked off to the enchanted...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Juneberry Blue
Ransom, Candice F.
Paper Book
Part gentle mystery, part ghostly fairy tale, this contemporary novel celebrates small towns, cozy storytelling, and one very determined ghost cat. Eleven-year-old Andie Jennings, of Morning Glory, Virginia (population: 8), is set to inherit her family's magic on Midsummer's Eve....

Children's Fiction (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)

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)

True colors
Cooper, Abby
Paper Book
Turning Red meets The Giver in this novel about a town where everyone agrees to think positively-but one girl, whose emotions manifest as colors, can't hide her true feelings. In Serenity, Minnesota, everyone looks on the bright side, and that's on purpose- to live...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

A game of Noctis
Fagan, Deva
Paper Book
An "exciting, fast-moving" (School Library Journal) middle grade fantasy about a girl who must participate in a deadly game with a ragtag team of players to save her grandfather from a terrible fate--perfect for fans of James Riley and Shannon Messenger! In the opulent,...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

The last Rhee witch
Lee-Yun, Jenna
Paper Book
A 2025 Children's Book Council Favorites Award Winner in three categories: Middle-Grade, Teacher, & Librarian! For fans of The Last Fallen Star, Witchlings, and Ghost Squad, a heartfelt middle grade debut where Korean folklore is all too real and summer...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

The Princess Protection Program
London, Alex
Paper Book
"A delightful tongue-in-cheek twist on fairy tales and the magic school genre. Mixing the modern with the magical, author Alex London skewers popular fairy-tale tropes with a sharp wit and a loving, lighthearted touch, telling an empowering story where princesses learn to be their...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Splinter & Ash
Nijkamp, Marieke
Paper Book
"A winning addition to boundary-defying heroines like Alanna of Trebond and Sir Callie." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An essential middle grade fantasy where all readers will find heroes to love and to cheer!" --Alex London, author of Battle Dragons and The Princess...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

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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