Magic, myth and legend

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Magical worlds and creatures, gifts and powers, myths, legends, monsters, and more.

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Fighting monsters

Kids shelf help fighting monsters Marvel Monsters Unleashed series, Steve Behling

Beast quest series, Adam Blade

The Princess in Black, Shannon & Dean Hale

Darkmouth, Shane Hegarty

Warlock in Whitby, Robin Jarvis

City of Orphans series, Catherine Jinks (Aust.)

Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures, Jackson Pearce & Maggie Stiefvater

Gap year in Ghost Town, Michael Pryor (Aust.)

Polly & Buster series, Sally Rippin

Wings of fire series, Tui T Sutherland

The Narroway trilogy, Rhiannon Williams

Gifts and powers

Kids shelf help gifts and powers Team hero series, Adam Blade

Matilda, Roald Dahl

The magic finger, Roald Dahl

The witches, Roald Dahl

Kid normal, Greg James

Shimmer, Jennifer McBride (Aust.) & Lynda Nixon (Aust.)

Black Panther: the junior novel, Jim McCann

Spirit animals’ series, Brandon Mull

My evil twin is a supervillain, David Solomons

Lily and the traitor’s spell, Holly Webb

What not to do if you turn invisible, Ross Welford

 

Magical creatures

Kids shelf help magical creatures The school for good and evil, Soman Chainani

Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer

How to train your dragon, Cressida Cowell

Revolting rhymes, Roald Dahl

The BFG, Roald Dahl

A book of princesses, Sally Gardner

The reluctant dragon, Kenneth Grahame

Ever after high series, Shannon Hale

The princess in black series, Shannon Hale

Pearlie series, Wendy Harmer (Aust.)

Pog, Padraig Kenny

Rainbow Magic series, Daisy Meadows

Hilda and the stone forest, Luke Pearson (GN)

The fairy dancers, Natalie Jane Prior (Aust.)

The Glimme, Emily Rodda (Aust.)

The cake, the wolf and the witch, Maudie Smith

The girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making, Catherynne M. Valente

Magical worlds

Kids shelf help Magical worlds.png Circus Mirandus, Cassie Beasley

The Wishing-Chair series, Enid Blyton (Aust.)

A sliver of stardust, Marissa Burt

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tony DiTerlizzi

The magical worlds of Narnia: A treasury of myths and legends, David Colbert

Midnight for Charlie Bone, Jenny Nimmo

Deltora Quest series, Emily Rodda (Aust.)

The key to Rondo, Emily Rodda

Rowan series, Emily Rodda

Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling

Septimus Heap series, Angie Sage

The sleepwalker tonic, Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

The Keepers series, Lian Tanner (Aust.)

The Nevermoor series, Jessica Townsend (Aust.)

Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers

 

Myths and legends

Kids shelf help Magic Legends series, Anthony Horowitz

Tricks and transformations, Anthony Horowitz

Thor: Ragnarok the novel, Jim McCann

Have sword, will travel, Garth Nix (Aust.) & Sean Williams (Aust.)

Heroes of Olympus series, Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase series, Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan