Modern Fantasy for the younger ages

This fun and mind capturing genre has been a long time staple in the classrooms of your younger students. The magical and unrealistic characteristics makes the stories so appealing to our younger reader and for teacher read alouds. Modern fantasy are classified into two categories: low and high. Low fantasy books take place in the real world but contain elements of magic to make things normally impossible possible such as speaking animals or inanimate objects such as toys come alive. High fantasy books created a detailed and thought out "other world"  and are normally more serious in tone and have a deeper plot.

 Take a look at some of these books and see if you can recall being immersed into the captivating pages of adventures these stories provided:


                                                              


Here is a website full of great books in the Modern Fantasy genre:

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