| Nightbirds
on Nantucket by Joan Aiken |
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An English girl, Dido Twite, is rescued
from sea by a whaling ship and ends up in Nantucket with
the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence. There they are
left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. |
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| The
Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain) by
Lloyd Alexander |
| Taran, the assistant pig-keeper,
longs to be a hero. He begins his journey to heroism with
a strange assortment of companions on a dangerous mission
to save his beloved homeland, Prydain. Packed with action,
humor, romance, and gallantry, Taran’s adventures
chronicle his love for Prydain and the brave battle he
wages against the forces of evil to protect it. |
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| The
Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander |
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Driven by his sense of "dharma," or
honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey,
with a significance greater than he can imagine, during
which he meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings,
demons, and the love of his life. |
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| The
Game of Sunken Places by M. T. Anderson |
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When two boys stay with an eccentric relative
at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned
board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure. |
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| Bright
Shadow by Avi |
| Having used 4 of the 5 wishes she is granted
to make on behalf of the hapless citizens of her country,
Morwenna flees the kingdom to decide what to do with her
last wish. |
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| The
Anybodies by Julianna Baggott |
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After learning that she is not the biological
daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on
magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a
place that feels like home." |
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| The
Lost Years of Merlin (The Lost Years of Merlin)
by T.A. Barron |
| When Merlin, suffering from
a case of severe amnesia, discovers his strange powers,
he becomes determined to discover his identity and flees
to Fincayra where he fulfills his destiny, saving Fincayra
from certain destruction and claiming his birthright and
true name. |
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| Peter
and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry |
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Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail
from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists
Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a
trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the
native inhabitants of a remote island. |
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| Doom
of the Haunted Opera by John Bellairs |
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Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger
are faced with a dilemma when their discovery of an unpublished
opera score unleashes a wicked sorcerer who plans to rule
the world by bringing back the dead. |
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| Revenge
of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs |
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies
dying, possessed by an evil
spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate try to find
some way to free him. |
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| The
House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs |
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A boy goes to live with his magician uncle
in a mansion that has a clock hidden in its walls that
is ticking off the minutes until doomsday. |
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| The
Children of Green Knowe (Odyssey Classic) by
Lucy Maria Boston |
| Tolly comes to live with his
great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and
becomes friends with three children who lived there in
the seventeenth century. |
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| Molly
Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng |
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Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living
in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers
a hidden talent for hypnotism and works her way to stardom
in New York City. |
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| Artemis
Fowl by Eoin Colfer |
| When a twelve-year-old evil
genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing
a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight
back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. |
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| Gregor
the Overlander by Suzanne Collins |
| When eleven-year-old Gregor
and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground
world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats,
rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold
by ancient prophecy. |
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| Over
Sea, Under Stone (Dark is Rising Sequence) by
Susan Cooper |
| Three children on a holiday
in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them
on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the
true story of King Arthur and that entraps them in the
eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the
forces of the Dark. |
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| The
Boggart by Susan Cooper |
| 12-year-old Emily returns home
from a visit to a castle in Scotland that her family has
just inherited, only to find that she has accidentally
brought home with her a boggart, a mysterious and invisible
spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. |
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| Into
the Land of Unicorns (The Unicorn Chronicles) by
Bruce Coville |
| This is the magical story of
Cara, a girl sent on a mission by her grandmother to Luster,
the land of the unicorns. Only Cara can protect the unicorns
and their world from invasion. |
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| Jeremy
Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville |
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Small for his age, but artistically talented,
12-year-old Jeremy unknowingly buys a dragon egg. |
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| Whispering
to Witches by Anna Dale |
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On his way to spend Christmas at his mother's
house in Canterbury, England, Joe meets a young witch named
Twiggy and becomes part of a mystery involving a missing
page from an ancient book of magic |
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| The
Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles) by Tony DiTerlizzi |
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When the Grace children go to stay at their
Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover
a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin
to have some unusual experiences. |
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| The
Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old
Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch
to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan
mountains. |
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| The
Magickers by Emily Drake |
| When Jason won a summer vacation
to Camp Ravenwyng, he never imagined what magical adventures
he was in for. |
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| So
You Want to be a Wizard (Wizardry Series) by
Diane Duane |
| Tormented by a gang of bullies
because she will not fight back, thirteen-year-old Nita
finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry,
a volume that leads her into a mysterious alternate dimension. |
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| The
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau |
| In the year 241, 12-year-old
Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to
run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps
even to glimpse Unknown Regions. |
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| Knight's
Castle by Edward Eager |
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Four children find their way into a mixed-up
medieval world where they become knights and battle giants. |
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| The
Time Garden by Edward Eager |
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Four cousins discover a magic thyme garden
from which they embark on a number of adventures in time. |
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| The
Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer |
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After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid
bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking
Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless
and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital
quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. |
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| The
Oracle Betrayed by Catherine Fisher |
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After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany
questions the established order and sets out, along with
a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of
the religious leader known as the Archon. |
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| Dragon
Rider by Cornelia Funke |
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After learning that humans are headed toward
his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined
by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary
valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly
and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling
to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy. |
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| Otto
and the Flying Twins by Charlotte Haptie |
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Young Otto comes to the rescue when he
discovers that his family and city are the last remnants
of an ancient magical world now under threat from the Normal
Police. |
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| Not
Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson |
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Determined to be more than just an ordinary
witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into
animals, settles in a small town determined to use her
powers for good purposes. |
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| Which
Witch? by Eva Ibbotson |
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The Great Wizard of Arriman announces a
competition among the witches of Todcaster to see who will
be his bride. |
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| Castle
in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones |
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A carpet merchant's daydreams about a princess,
a genie, and a villain become reality after he flies off
on a shabby magic carpet. |
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| The
Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones |
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Christopher discovers that his dreams are
so realistic that he can actually visit other worlds and
bring things back from them for his beloved, yet mysterious,
uncle. |
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| Witch
Week by Diana Wynne Jones |
| Magical chaos fills class 6B when a group
of witch orphans begin playing magic tricks. |
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| The
Shamer's Daughter by Lene Kaaberbol |
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After her mother, a Shamer, is summoned
to Dunark for a mission, ten-year-old Dina is forced to
use her own special powers as she is caught up in an adventure
of political intrigue and survival. |
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| Tales of the Wicked Witch (Wicked
Witch Anthologies) by Hanna Kraan |
| A collection of humorous tales
follows the adventures of a mischievous witch whose heart
of gold always shines through her spells, making her forest
companions love her despite themselves. |
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| Redwall (Redwall) by
Brian Jacques |
| When the peaceful life of ancient
Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat
Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse,
determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior
which, he is convinced, will help Redwall’s inhabitants
destroy the enemy. |
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| A
Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle) by
Ursula K. Le Guin. |
| A boy grows to manhood while
attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world
as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. |
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| A
Wrinkle in Time (The Time Quartet) by Madeleine
L’Engle. |
| Meg Murry and her friends become
involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s
father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work
for the government. |
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| The
Magician’s Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by
C.S. Lewis. |
| When Digory and Polly try to
return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic
becomes mixed up and they all land in Narnia, where they
witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. |
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Tomorrow's
Wizard by Patricia MacLachlan
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Be careful what you wish for, because Tomorrow's
Wizard, his unorthodox apprentice, Murdoch, and their talking
horse make wishes come true in ways that surprise the wishers. |
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The
Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
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A changeling learns her true identity and
tries to find the human child whose place she has been
given. |
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| The
Blue Sword by Robin McKinley |
| Harry is kidnapped by the King
of the Damarians, and comes reluctantly to realize that
they possess the same mysterious powers. |
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The
Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
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Aerin, with the help of the wizard Luth
and a magic blue sword, wins the birthright due her as
the daughter of a King and a witch. |
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| The
New Kid at School (Dragon Slayers’ Academy) by
K.H. McMullan. |
| Wiglaf is off to Dragon Slayers'
Academy and in for a first day of school he will never
forget. |
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The
House on Falling Star Hill by Michael Molloy
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While spending the summer with his grandparents
in an unusually quiet village in western England, Tim and
his dog Josh find themselves involved in dangerous adventures
when they are inadverently transported to the strange and
magical world of Tallis. |
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The
Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris
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| In medieval England, fourteen-year-old
Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when
he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and
accompanies him on a long quest, proving Gawain's worth
as a knight and revealing an important secret about his
own true identity |
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The
Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
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Four English children find a wonderful
world of magic through an enchanted wishing ring. |
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Mister
Monday by Garth Nix
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| Arthur Penhaligon is supposed
to die at a young age, but is saved by a key that is shaped
like the minute hand of a clock. The key causes bizarre
creatures to come from another realm, bringing with them
a plague. A man named Mister Monday will stop at nothing
to get the key back. |
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The
Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea
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The ancient book Pidge found brings the
evil Queen Morrigan and her two witchlike assistants to
his door, threatening the future of the world. |
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East by
Edith Pattou
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A young woman journeys to a distant castle
on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of
a cruel enchantment. |
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Sandry's
Book (The Circle of Magic Series) by Tamora Pierce
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| Four young outcasts discover
their magic powers. While still learning how to control
them, they must battle deadly threats. |
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The
Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Pope
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In 1558 a young girl imprisoned in a remote
castle becomes involved in a series of events that lead
to an underground labyrinth where live the last practitioners
of Druid magic. |
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A
Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
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| Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training,
learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a
disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high
Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch
in the world. |
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| The
Golden Compass (His Dark Materials) by Phillip Pullman. |
| Accompanied by her daemon,
Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other
kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome
experiments in the Far North. |
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| Princess
Nevermore by Dian Regan |
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When a Mandrian princess makes a wish in
a wizard's circle, she winds up on Earth alone and without
the means or desire to return home. |
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| The
Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by
Lemony Snicket. |
| After the sudden death of their
parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each
other and their wits when it turns out that the distant
relative who is appointed their guardian is determined
to use any means necessary to get their fortune. |
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| The
Road to Balinor (Unicorns of Balinor) by Mary
Stanton. |
| After a terrible riding accident,
Ari cannot remember anything of her past and is sent to
live on a farm with foster parents. What Ari doesn’t
know is that she is not from our world, but from Balinor,
a land of sorcerers and unicorns! |
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| The
Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again (The Lord of
the Rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien. |
| Whisked away from his comfortable,
unambitious life in his hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard
and a company of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught
up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent,
a large and very dangerous dragon. A necessary prequel
to the Lord of the Rings trilogy |
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| The
Thief by Megan Whalen Turner |
| Gen flaunts his ingenuity as
a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a
remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal
a precious stone. |
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| Wizard
at Work: A Novel in Stories by Vivian Vande Velde |
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A young wizard, who runs a school to teach
wizards, looks forward to a quiet summer off but is drawn
into aeventures with princesses, unicorns, and ghosts instead. |
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| The
Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop |
| William is given a toy medieval
castle as a gift, and is magically transported to another
world of wizards and dragons. Here he must fight a battle
between good and evil. |
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| Dealing
With Dragons (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles) by
Patricia C. Wrede. |
| Rather than marry a boring
prince, Princess Cimerone runs away from her kingdom and
becomes an assistant to the dragon Kazul. |
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| Dragon
of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep |
| Shimmer, a renegade dragon
princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch
with the help of a human boy. |
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| Dragon’s
Blood (The Pit Dragon Trilogy) by Jane Yolen. |
| A bond servant in Master Sarkkhan’s
dragon barns, young Jakkin Stewart hopes to obtain his
freedom by stealing a dragon hatchling and secretly training
it to become a champion fighter. |
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| Wizard's
Hall by Jane Yolen |
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A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's
training hall by trusting and believing in himself. |
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| Journeyman
Wizard by Mary Frances Zambreno |
| Jermyn goes to Land's End to
study wizardry under the famous spellmaker Lady Jean and
experiences magical mayhem and mystery. |
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| The
Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell |
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A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight,
and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling
hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical
creatures. |
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| Faerie
Wars by Herbie Brennan |
| Troubled by family problems,
Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when
he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with
Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie
world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the
Night. |
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| The
Seeing Stone (Arthur trilogy) by Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| In late twelfth-century England,
a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin
gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images
of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life
seem to have many parallels to his own. |
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| The
Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle |
| In nineteenth-century England,
a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate,
the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their
ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. |
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| Stravaganza:
City of Masks by Mary Hoffman |
| While sick in bed with cancer,
Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel
world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught
up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa
who rules the city. |
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| The
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones |
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An unconventional wizard and his magical
family become involved in a plan to stop the devastating
tours of their world arranged by tyrannical Mr. Chesney. |
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| How's
Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones |
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In the land of Ingary, such things as spells,
invisible cloaks, & seven league boots are everyday
things. Nothing is quite what it seems to be. |
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| The
Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones |
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When an evil enchantress tries to destroy
Caprona two young children and the wizard Chrestomanci
join forces to defeat her. |
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| The
Book of Earth by Majorie Kellogg |
| Score's power is fading; to
prevent his death he and his friends have to return to
Earth to find the amulet that controls his fate. |
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| The
Akhenaten Adventure by Philip Kerr |
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When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and
John discover that they are descended from a long line
of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod,
who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about
their extraordinary powers. |
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| Goose
Chase by Patrice Kindl |
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Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly
dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment,
capture by several ogresses, and other dangers, before
learning exactly who she is. |
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| Gifts by
Ursula K. LeGuin |
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When a young man in the Uplands blinds
himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a
violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets
the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families,
each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own. |
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| Dragonsong by
Anne McCaffrey |
| Forbidden by her father to
indulge in music in any way, Menolly of the planet Pern
runs away, taking refuge with the mythical fire lizards,
and they, along with her music open up a whole new world
for her. |
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| The
Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip |
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A sorceress raises an abandoned baby, only
to discover that his real father is the greatest enemy
of the man she loves. |
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| Midnight
for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo |
| After discovering that he has
a magical gift, Charlie Bone is forced to go to the dreaded
Bloor's Academy. |
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| Sabriel (The
Abhorsen Trilogy) by Garth Nix |
| Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer
Abhorson, must journey into the mysterious and magical
Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the land of the dead. |
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| Eragon by
Christopher Paolini |
| In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old
boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious
stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of
destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves,
and monsters. |
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- Eldest (to be published August, 2005)
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| Treasure
At the Heart of the Tanglewood by Meredith Ann Pierce |
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Hannah, a healer with unusual powers, leaves
the wizard she has always served and, along with her animal
companions, begins a journey which uncovers the truth about
her real nature. |
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| Wild
Magic (The Immortals Series) by Tamora Pierce |
| Daine accepts her gift of wild
magic and learns how valuable her powers will be to the
kingdom's future. |
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| A
School for Sorcery by Sabin E. Rose |
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Welcome to the Leslie Simonton School for
the Magically Gifted...a school where students can expect
the unexpected. But be careful. At this school the final
exam could be a real...killer. |
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| The
Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn |
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Fiona is Safe-Keeper in the small village
of Tambleham, where neighbors and strangers alike come
one by one, in secret, to tell her things they dare not
share with anyone else. |
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| Beyond
the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart |
| Thirteen-year-old Twig, having
always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family,
learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods
home to find the place where he belongs. |
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| The
Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud |
| Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice,
summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal
the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon
Lovelace. |
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| The
Other Ones by Jean Thesman |
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High school sophomore Bridget Raynes has
to decide whether to accept her powers of witchcraft, or
abandon them and try to fit in as an ordinary teenage |
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| Sorcery
and Cecelia Or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia
Wrede |
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In 1817 in England, two young cousins,
Cecilia living in the country and Kate in London, write
letters to keep each other informed of their exploits,
which take a sinister turn when they find themselves confronted
by evil wizards. |
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