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Fantasy Fiction or Modern Fantasy  Note: Certain images and text are linked. If it's **bold**, it usually means it's a link.

Fantasy fiction is a fiction story with fantasy elements, such as fairies, dragons, unicorns, wizards, magic, etc. Harry Potter is an example of fantasy.

Some examples of fantasy fiction are:


 * talking animals
 * magical worlds
 * strange creatures
 * talking inanimate objects
 * levitation or floatation used by anything that can't normally do so
 * flying humans
 * animals with weaponry
 * lightning bringing an object to life
 * made-up languages
 * transformation
 * strange plants
 * any living thing walking on water
 * curses

Fantasy isn't just fantasy. In fact, it has "branches", too. Some branches include: 


 * **horror, as vampires or anything with the prefix were- don't exist**
 * **fairy tales, as fairies and witches don't exist**
 * **ghost stories, as ghosts don't exist, although some disagree**

Some fantasy books are part of a series. Some series are:

  Of course, there are more, but I want to get further. 
 * Harry Potter
 * Magic Tree House
 * **Time Warp Trio**[[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=L&Value=9780670880416 width="240" height="349" caption="Time Warp Trio" link="http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=1176763&FullBreadCrumb=%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.scholastic.com%2Fbrowse%2Fsearch%2F%3Fquery%3Dtime%2Bwarp%2Btrio%253A%2Bsummer%2Breading%2Bis%2Bkilling%2Bme%26Ntt%3Dtime%2Bwarp%2Btrio%253a%2Bsummer%2Breading%2Bis%2Bkilling%2Bme%26Ntk%3DSCHL30_SI%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26y%3D0%26N%3D0%26x%3D0%26_N%3Dfff%22+class%3D%22endecaAll%22%3EAll+Results%3C%2Fa%3E"]]
 * Captain Underpants, seriously
 * <span style="background-color: #6b2e6b; color: #808000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Lord of the Rings

Fantasy gallery of books I have read: I recommend them, too. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> This is a collection of short fantasies. If you like story collections, you will like this. This is an obvious example of fantasy fiction. This is also part of a series. All three books are too unbelievably funny! **Clicking on this image will send you to a summary.** Classic fantasy that is still in good taste. It's been made into a movie...twice! **Clicking on this image will send you to a selection of games on the site of the second movie.** There is also a sequel (see below).

Fantasy fiction books are sometimes turned into movies. Here are some slated for release sometime this year:
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One
 * Part Two is slated for release in 2011
 * original book by JK Rowling
 * original book was not told in 2 books
 * Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
 * original books by Rick Riordan
 * release date 2/12/10

Right now, I'm reading the //Percy Jackson and the Olympians// book series, and that's fantasy. You really can't get enough of it.[|**If you click on this text, you will be sent to the Percy Jackson website.**]

In the beginning, I mentioned horror, a genre that falls under fantasy. Some horror books include:


 * Fear Street (series) ↓
 * Twilight (series)[[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=L&Value=9780671023027 width="195" height="341" caption="This is one of R.L. Stine's horror book series."]][[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Goosebumps.png width="160" height="173" caption="The G in Goosebumps. Clicking it will send you to some Goosebumps fun." link="http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/games/index.htm"]]
 * **Goosebumps**
 * Goosebumps Horrorland (series)
 * Reader Beware! You Choose the Scare! (series)
 * Goosebumps (series)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> **Back to fantasy; sometimes, a fantasy book ends up with a sequel, sometimes a prequel! Some sequels were //so// successful, a third book arrived, which meant one word...series. Other times, a series is planned, so the author starts working on the next book right after the previous one is released. Some fantasy sequels are:**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">New Moon (sequel of Twilight)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (sequel of Harry Potter and the Sorcorer's Stone)
 * The Twin Towers (sequel of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

**If you click on this image, you will see a selection of Harry Potter games that you can play.**

media type="custom" key="5197277" width="80" height="80"This is a Voki regarding fantasy books. It is not exactly 20 seconds long, but you will be laughing as if it was. Watch this. You //must.// **Also, clicking on the Voki speech bubble will send you to the site.**

Simon (UK) voice Green20 script Dead Fish lip-synching You viewer
 * Cast:

Thank you.**

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 120%;"> You have reached the end of my Wikispaces page regarding fantasy fiction. I hope this has persuaded you to read fantasy books. Happy reading! Oh, and don't forget the To-Do list. ↓

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 * 1) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tell everyone to look at this.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Read fantasy fiction books.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make your own Voki.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Make your own Wikispaces page.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Enjoy yourself.

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