# Fantasy books about magic, fiction

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

**Genre:** Fantasy  ·  **Theme:** magic, fiction
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Fantasy magic, fiction reading list

- [A Deadly Game of Magic](https://readinglist.school/book/a-deadly-game-of-magic) by Joan Lowery Nixon _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1983)_
- [Magyk](https://readinglist.school/book/magyk) by Angie Sage _(Grades 3–8 · pub 2001)_
- [The Christmas of the Reddle Moon](https://readinglist.school/book/the-christmas-of-the-reddle-moon) by J. Patrick Lewis _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1994)_

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