# Fantasy books about identity

**3** fantasy books that explore identity, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Fantasy  ·  **Theme:** identity
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Fantasy identity reading list

- [Keeper of the Lost Cities](https://readinglist.school/book/keeper-of-the-lost-cities) by Shannon Messenger _(Grades 4–8 · pub 2025)_
- [Max and the Midknights](https://readinglist.school/book/max-and-the-midknights) by Lincoln Peirce _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2019)_
- [Willa of the Wood](https://readinglist.school/book/willa-of-the-wood) by Robert Beatty _(Grades 4–7 · pub 2018)_

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