1. Outcome: I can find fantasy or
science fiction within my Lexile for
my February book project.

2. Search for Delicious
Gaylen, the King’s messenger, a skinny boy of
twelve, is off to poll the kingdom, traveling from
town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow.
At first it is merely a question of disagreement at
the royal castle over which food should stand for
Delicious in the new dictionary. But soon it seems
that the search for Delicious had better succeed if
civil war is to be avoided.
Gaylen’s quest leads him to the woldweller, a wise,
900-year-old creature who lives alone at the
precise center of the forest; to Canto, the minstrel
who sings him an old song about a mermaid child
and who gives him a peculiar good-luck charm; to
the underground domain of the dwarfs; and finally
to Ardis who might save the kingdom from havoc
Lexile: 910
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F
BAB

3. Franie K. Stein: Lunch Walks Among Us
F
BEN
Franny K. Stein is a mad
scientist who prefers all
things spooky and creepy,
but when she has trouble
making friends at her new
school she experiments
with fitting in--which
works until a monster
erupts from the trashcan.
Lexile: 710

4. House of Power: Atherton Series
F
CAR
Edgar, an eleven-year-old
orphan, finds a book that
reveals significant secrets
about Atherton, the strictly
divided world on which he
lives, even as geological
changes threaten to shift the
power structure that allows an
elite few to live off the labor of
others.
Lexile: 950

5. Gregor the Overlander: Underland
Chronicles:
F
COL
• When eleven-year-old
Gregor and his twoyear-old sister are
pulled into a strange
underground world,
they trigger an epic
battle involving
humans, bats, rats,
cockroaches, and
spiders while on a
quest foretold by
ancient prophecy.
• Lexile: 630

6. The Coming of Dragons
• Two eleven-year-olds,
Edmund and Elspeth,
discover that they
have been given
fantastic gifts to use
against the ancient
and evil forces that
have been awakened
by powerful magic
during the Dark Ages
in Great Britain.
• Lexile: 790
F
LAK

7. Wildwood
• Prue's life shifts from
ordinary to extraordinary
when her baby brother is
kidnapped by a murder of
crows and she must embark
into the Impassable
Wilderness, a dense forest in
the center of Portland,
Oregon, with her friend
Curtis in tow, where the pair
will encounter warring
creatures, peaceful mystics,
and other dark-minded,
powerful figures.
• Lexile: 900
F
Mel

8. The Flint Heart: a Fairy Story
• A magical amulet, created
by a Stone Age magic man
for an ambitious individual
wishing to take control of
his tribe, brings power and
despair to those who touch
it, and when the amulet
reemerges, Charles and his
sister Unity must find a way
to rescue the humans,
fairies, and animals from
the mysterious object.
• Lexile: 1030
F
PAT

9. The Secret Order of the Gumm Street
Girls
F
PRI
• In order to save the
town of Sherbet, four
girls with very little in
common become
involved with some
people and events
that seem to bear a
resemblance to "The
Wizard of Oz.“
• Lexile: 910

10. Hugo Pepper
• A boy, orphaned and
raised in the Frozen
North by reindeer
herders, boards his birth
parents' sled and sets its
special compass to
"Home," where he
uncovers a plot that
threatens his mermaid
godmothers and other
friends of his family.
• Lexile: 1110
F
STE

11. Elissa’s Quest
• Thirteen-year-old Elissa
knows nothing of her
origins until her father
comes and takes her to
the Citadel of the evil
Khan, in exchange for
soldiers to protect the
kingdom that will one
day be hers, but upon
discovering her power,
she chooses to follow her
own destiny.
• Lexile: 750
F
VER

12. A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring) F
DAD
• Time has gone wrong,
and best friends Dak
Smyth and Sera Froste,
together with the young
Hystorian Riq, must use
the infinity ring to travel
back to one of the Great
Breaks--a mutiny on the
Santa María--to correct
history and defeat the
SQ.
• Lexile: 800

13. The Girl Who Could Fly
• Piper McCloud's
ability to fly sets her
apart from the other
kids, so her mother
sends her to an
exclusive school for
children with
exceptional abilities,
but even there she
does not fit in with
the other students.
• Lexile: 920
F
FOR