The Giant Print Library
Fantasy Stories for
younger readers
Updated: November 2012
Any UK member of our library service
may borrow up to a maximum of 6
books per service for a 3 month loan
period.
Most of the books have been produced
by the National Blind Children's
Society and are in 24 point type with
identical covers to the ordinary print
versions of the books.
Please be aware that due to their size,
many of the books are split into two or
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Fantasy Stories
Babbitt, Natalie.
Tuck everlasting. 2003.
Suggested reading age 11+. 1v.
The Tuck family is confronted with an
agonizing situation when they discover
that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious
stranger now share their secret about
a spring whose water prevents one
from ever growing older.
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Banks, Lynne Reid.
The Indian in the cupboard. 1988.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
Book 1 of the Indian in the cupboard
series. (Other books in this series are
also available.) When Omri is given a
toy Indian and a small cupboard for his
birthday, he has no idea that when he
puts the Indian in the cupboard it will
come alive…
Barrowman, John
Hollow earth. 2012. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Twins Matt and Emily Calder have
imaginations so powerful that they can
make art come to life. Their powers
are sought by villains intent on
accessing the terrors of Hollow Earth a place where all devils, demons and
monsters lie trapped for eternity. If
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Hollow Earth is breached, the world
will be plunged into chaos.
Blackman, Malorie.
Thief! 1995. Suggested reading
age 11+. 2v.
Fleeing on to the moors when she is
unfairly accused of theft, an
extraordinary storm suddenly whirls
twelve-year-old Lydia into the future, a
computer-dominated future where her
home town is now ruled by a cruel
tyrant. As Lydia struggles to get back
to her own time, she discovers she
must face a terrible confrontation.
Blade, Adam.
Ferno: the fire dragon. 2007.
Suggested interest age 7+. 1v.
Book 1 of the Beast quest series (other
books in this series are also available).
An evil wizard has enchanted the
magical beasts of Avantia - only a true
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hero can free the beasts and stop
them from destroying the land. Is Tom
the hero Avantia has been waiting for?
Calcutt, David.
The map of marvels. 2010.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
When Connor starts creating a map of
an imaginary world he has no idea that
eventually he will become part of that
world. As he sets off on his journey
through the map, he knows one thing he must find the Tower of Truth. Only
then will he find out whether the world
in the map is real, or whether it is just
a story.
Canavan, Trudi
The magician's guild. 2004.
Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.
Book 1 of The black magician trilogy.
Each year the magicians of Imardin
gather together to purge the city
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streets of vagrants, urchins and
miscreants. But their protective shield
is not as impenetrable as they believe.
There is an untrained magician loose
on the streets. She must be found
before her uncontrolled powers
unleash forces that will destroy both
her, and the city that is her home.
Carroll, Lewis
Alice's adventures in
Wonderland ; and, Through the
looking glass 1865-1871.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
The first story about Alice's adventures
when she follows a rabbit in a hurry
down a rabbit hole. The second story
follows Alice into the Looking-glass
kingdom where order is turned upside
down.
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Cast, P. C.
Marked. 2009. Suggested interest
age 15+. 2v.
Book 1 in the House of Night series
(some other books in this series are
also available). When sixteen-year-old
Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a
fledgling vampire she must join the
House of Night school where she will
train to become an adult vampire. But
Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has
been chosen as special by the
Goddess Nyx and discovers her
amazing new power to conjure the
elements: earth, air, fire, water and
spirit. When Zoey discovers that the
leader of the Dark Daughters, the
school's most elite group, is misusing
her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must
look within herself to embrace her
destiny.
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Clare, Cassandra.
Clockwork angel. 2011.
Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.
Book 1 of the Infernal Devices series
(Book 2, Clockwork Prince, is also
available). London,1878. 16-year-old
Tessa Gray's priority should be finding
her brother, not falling in love with two
boys. She is soon caught in a
dangerous love triangle where a wrong
decision could prove atal. Tessa will
need all her strength to save her
brother and stay alive as she learns
about what really lurks on London's
streets after dark.
Colfer, Eoin.
Artemis Fowl. 2002. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series
(Other books in this series are also
available).Twelve-year-old villain,
Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious
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criminal mastermind in history. His
bold and daring plan is to hold a
leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking
on more than he bargained for when
he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the
LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police
Reconnaissance Unit).
Cooper, Susan.
Over sea, under stone. 1965.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Dark Is Rising series
(the other books in this series are also
available). A holiday in Cornwall and
the discovery of an ancient map lead
to a search for Arthurian treasure. But
Simon, Jane and Barney realize that
dark forces are against them.
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Corlett, William.
The steps up the chimney. 2005.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of The Magician's House
series. (Other books in this series are
also available). William, Mary and
Alice Constant have come to spend
Christmas with their uncle as their
parents are working abroad. Little by
little, they discover that things in this
remote old house are not quite what
they seem. There are powerful forces
at work, calling to the children from
across the centuries; forces that pull
them up the hidden steps in the
chimney to the secret room where the
magician lives.
Cresswell, Helen.
Snatchers. 1998. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
When Ellie meets an angel called
Plum in the park one day, little does
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she realize that he's there to protect
her from the Land of Starless Night.
And when the wolf-woman comes to
call, little does Ellie realize how much
in need of a guardian angel she really
is.
Croggon, Alison
The gift. 2004. Suggested reading
age 13+. 4v.
Book 1 of the Pellinor series (some
other books in this series are also
available). Maerad is a slave in a
desperate and unforgiving settlement,
taken there as a child when her family
is destroyed in war. She is unaware
that she possesses a powerful gift, a
gift that marks her as a member of the
School of Pellinor. It is only when she
is discovered by Cadvan, one of the
great Bards of Lirigon, that her true
heritage and extraordinary destiny
unfolds.
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Dalton, Annie.
Winging it. 2005. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
Meet Melanie Beeby! Mel is a trainee
time-travelling angel. She's feisty,
witty, streetwise and dead!
Dickinson, Peter.
The tears of the salamander.
2004. Suggested reading age
11+. 2v.
Mount Etna towers above the remote
villa where Alfredo lives with his uncle
after a fire wipes out his family. Deep
within Etna swim the magical
salamanders, and he must use his
strange powers to protect them,
destroy his uncle and control the
explosive rage of the volcano.
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Erwin, J. D.
Mission improbable. 2010.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Edwin Spencer has enough problems
at school as it is, without strange
voices calling him into another
dimension! But when he is sucked into
the peculiar kingdom of Hysteria on a
secret mission he feels very at home.
This could be his chance at last to be a
hero, even if he does have Perpetua
Allbright, school swot as his sidekick.
Farmer, Penelope.
Charlotte sometimes. 1969.
Suggested reading age 11+. 1v.
It is Charlotte's first night at boarding
school. When she wakes up, the girl in
the next bed is not the one that was
there last night; she is a stranger who
calls Charlotte "Claire", and says is her
younger sister Emily. Somehow,
Charlotte has slipped back forty years.
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Fine, Anne.
A sudden puff of glittering
smoke. 1989. Suggested reading
age 7+.
Book 1 of the Genie trilogy.(Other
books in this series are also
available.)The disgruntled genie who
appears on her desk seems to be the
answer to Jeanie's problems whatever she wishes, he will
command. But Jeanie quickly
discovers that she and her genie have
very different views of the world.
Fisher, Catherine.
The Oracle. 2003. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
In the distant land of deserts and
islands, the servants of the god rule
the land. His wishes are conveyed
through the Oracle. Mirany is the new
Bearer, afraid of her perilous duties for
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the god in the rituals of the Oracle, and
fearful of her secret questioning...
Funke, Cornelia.
Inkheart. 2004. Suggested
reading age 11+. 4v.
Book 1 of the Inkheart trilogy (Other
books in the trilogy are also
available).Mo, a gentle bookbinder
with an extraordinary secret, and his
daughter Meggie love books, yet he
has not read aloud to her since her
mother disappeared years ago. After
a mysterious stranger visits them, Mo
tells Meggie they must go into hiding.
But why? - and from whom?
Garner, Alan.
Elidor. 1965. Suggested reading
age 9+. 1v.
One gloomy day, Roland, Helen,
Nicholas and David are lured into a
ruined church, where they enter into
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the twilight world of Elidor. Then the
evil forces find a path through to this
world.
Garner, Alan.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
1960. Suggested reading age 9+.
2v.
Book 1 of the Alderley series. (Book 2,
The Moon of Gomrath, is also
available.)
When Colin and Susan are pursued by
eerie creatures across Alderley Edge,
the wizard Cadellin takes them to
safety deep in the caves of
Fundindelve. Here he watches over
the enchanted sleep of 140 knights,
awaiting the fated hour when they
must rise and fight.
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Garner, Alan.
The owl service. 1967. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
The curious pattern on the dinner
service Alison finds in the loft bears a
strange resemblance to an owl,
interesting but unimportant. From that
moment on begins a change of events
that is as disturbing as it is
inexplicable.
Gliori, Debi
Pure dead magic. 2002.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
Book 1 of the Pure dead series. (Other
books in this series are also available.)
We meet young Titus Strega-Borgia,
our 12-year-old hero, his 10-year-old
sister Pandora and the divine baby
Damp. Add to the mix the rats who live
in the modem, the beasts in the
basement, a seriously wicked baddie
called Don Lucifer di S'Embowelli and
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a gangster in a rabbit suit and watch
as the ensuing mayhem takes hold.
Gordon, Roderick
Tunnels. 2007. Suggested
reading age 13+. 3v.
Book 1 of the Tunnels series.
Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows has a
passion for digging. When his father
suddenly disappears down an
unknown tunnel, Will decides to
investigate with his friend Chester.
Soon they find themselves deep
underground, where they unearth a
dark and terrifying secret - a secret
which may cost them their lives.
Hale, Shannon.
The book of a thousand days.
2008. Suggested reading age
11+. 2v.
When a beautiful princess refuses to
marry the prince her father has
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chosen, her father is furious. So
furious he locks her in a tower. She
has seven long years of solitude to
think about her insolence. But the
princess is not entirely alone - she can
take her maid, Dashti. Petulant and
spoilt, the princess eats the food in
their meagre store as if she were still
at court, and Dashti soon realizes they
must either escape or slowly starve.
Hardinge, Frances.
Fly by night. 2006. Suggested
reading age 9+. 3v.
Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose,
Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion
on the heels of smooth-talking conman, Eponymous Clent.
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Harris, Joanne
Runemarks. 2007. Suggested
reading age 11+. 3v.
Maddy Smith was born with a rustycoloured runemark on her hand - a
symbol of the old gods and definitely
cause for suspicion. For magic is
dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But
Maddy enjoys working magic, even if it
is just to control some pesky goblins.
Hearne, Lian
Across the nightingale floor.
2003. Suggested reading age
15+. 2v.
Tales of the Otori book 1 (other books
in this series are also available). In his
black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the
murderous warlord, lida Sadamu,
surveys his famous nightingale floor.
Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings
at the tread of each human foot. No
assassin can cross it unheard. Brought
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up in a remote mountain village among
the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual
people, Takeo has learned only the
ways of peace. Why, then, does he
possess the deadly skills that make
him so valuable to the sinister Tribe?
Higgins, F. E.
The black book of secrets. 2007.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
A boy arrives at a remote village in the
dead of night. His name is Ludlow
Fitch - and he is running from a most
terrible past. Then out of the mist
comes Joe Zabbidou - a mysterious
pawnbroker who trades people's
deepest, darkest secrets for cash.
Horowitz, Anthony.
Day of the dragon. 1989.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Vietamese, abandoned by his parents,
Will Tyler is adopted by an English
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couple and brought up in London. On
the day he flies out to his adoptive
father in Hong Kong he is nearly
kidnapped. Once on the plane he
thinks the nightmare is over. It has
only just begun...
Horowitz, Anthony.
Raven's gate. 2005. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 in the Power of Five series
(some other books in this series are
also available). When Matt Freeman
gets into trouble with the police, he's
sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not
long before he senses there's
something wrong with his guardian:
with the whole village. Then Matt
learns about the Old Ones and begins
to understand just how he is different.
But no one will believe him; no one
can help him. There is no proof. There
is no logic. There is just the gate.
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Hoving, Isabel
The dream merchant. 2006.
Suggested reading age 13+. 5v.
Josh Cope is just an average boy. So
why is an international corporation so
convinced that he is the key to
conquering their new market: the past?
Josh is drawn into a whirlwind
adventure, to a place between dreams
and reality.
Irwin, J.D.
Mission Improbable. 2010.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Edwin Spencer has enough problems
at school as it is, without strange
voices calling him into another
dimension! But when he is sucked into
the peculiar kingdom of Hysteria on a
secret mission he feels very at home.
This could be his chance at last to be a
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hero, even if he does have Perpetua
Allbright, school swot as his sidekick.
Jones, Diana Wynne.
Archer's Goon. 2000. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
A Goon is a being who melts into the
foreground and sticks there. When the
Goon turns up demanding "Archer's
two thousand", life turns upside-down.
Howard discovers that the town is run
by seven crazy wizards and someone
is trying to take over the world!
Jones, Diane Wynne
Charmed life. 1977. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Chrestomanci series
(Book 2, The magicians of Caprona, is
also available). Everybody says that
Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch so it
suits her enormously when she is
taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle.
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However, life with the great enchanter
and his family is not what she expects
and sparks soon begin to fly...
Jones, Diana Wynne.
Howl's moving castle. 1986.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
In the land of Ingary, where seven
league boots and cloaks of invisibility
do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the
unwelcome attention of the Witch of
the Waste and is put under a spell.
Kate, Lauren
Fallen. 2010. Suggested reading
age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 in the Fallen series (other
books in this series are also available).
17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a
gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at
her new school, the grim, foreboding
Sword and Cross only to find out that
Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they
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have spent lifetimes finding and losing
one another as good and evil forces
plot to keep them apart.
Keaney, Brian.
The magical detectives. 2010.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
When Otto returns home from school
one day to find his mother missing,
and then discovers an advert for the
Magical Detective Agency, he decides
there's nothing for it but to call on their
services. In fact, the agency is just one
man, a strange character call
Maximillan Hawksmoor, who becomes
convinced that Otto's mother has been
abducted by Elementals -- beings who
live in a completely different world. It's
not long before Otto, plus his friend
Juliet and her cat Cornelius, join Max
on a strange and dangerous journey to
rescue Otto's mother -- in a world
where anything is possible.
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King-Smith, Dick
Dragon boy. 1994. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
A young boy is adopted by a pair of
dragons on the outskirts of the forest
of Sherwood. This story is set in Merrie
England and in the days of knights and
outlaws.
Landy, Derek.
Skulduggery Pleasant. 2007.
Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.
Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of
horror fiction. But when he dies and
leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns
that while he may have written horror,
it certainly wasn't fiction.
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Le Guin, Ursula.
A wizard of Earthsea. 1968.
Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Earthsea series (other
books in this series are also available).
Sparrowhawk, a young boy with uncommon powers, goes to a school for
Wizards, but pride drives him to try
certain dangerous powers too soon
and a terrible evil is let loose.
Lewis, C.S.
The lion, the witch and the
wardrobe. 1950. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
Book 1 of the Narnia series. (Other
books in this series are also available.)
Four children are sent to live in a
rambling, old house, and in an empty,
forgotten room they find an old
wardrobe which leads them into the
magical land of Narnia.
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Lisle, Rebecca.
Amethyst. 2006. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Amy jumps at the chance to leave her
gloomy aunt and uncle and go to the
mountains. But once there, she finds
that she must to go to stay with the
alien clan, the Wood People, and
betray them. Worse still, when she
meets the Woods she likes them, and
her traitorous position there makes her
more and more uncomfortable. A
mysterious stranger turns up at the
house, and kidnaps their beloved wolf
cub. Amy is soon engaged in the
chase through the winter landscape to
a final showdown.
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Lively, Penelope.
The whispering knights. 1995.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
The children concoct a witch's brew
and are surprised and delighted by the
results.
McNish, Cliff.
The doomspell. 2001. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Doomspell trilogy (the
other titles in the trilogy are also
available). Rachel and her younger
brother are ripped through the wall and
hurtled on to another world. Like
thousands of children before them,
they have been snatched by the Witch.
But this time the Witch has met her
match. Rachel discovers that she has
extraordinary gifts. She is the only
hope for the Witch's victims.
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Madley, Thom
Marco's pendulum. 2006.
Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.
When Marco is staying in Glastonbury
for the summer, he soon starts to
recognise the magic of the place - the
magic that a development company is
planning to exploit. Marco is quickly
drawn into the dangerous struggle to
protect the ancient mysticism of
Glastonbury.
Mead, Richelle.
Vampire academy. 2009.
Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Vampire Academy series
(some other books in the series are
also available). St Vladimir's Academy
isn't just any boarding school - hidden
away, it's a place where vampires are
educated in the ways of magic and
half-human teens train to protect them.
Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a
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bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a
Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been
on the run, but now they're being
dragged back to St Vladimir's where
the girls must survive a world of
forbidden romances, a ruthless social
scene and terrifying night time rituals.
But most of all, staying alive.
Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight. 2005. Suggested
reading age 15+. 3v.
Book 1 of the Twilight Saga (Other
books in the series are also available).
The Cullen family obviously prefers
their own company and will make no
exception for Bella. Bella is convinced
that Edward Cullen in particular hates
her, but she feels a strange attraction
to him. He seems determined to push
her away, until, that is, he saves her
life from an out of control car.
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Morpurgo, Michael.
Arthur, High King of Britain.
1997. Suggested reading age
11+. 1-2v.
A composite version of all the legends
of King Arthur, retold from King
Arthur's own point of view.
Morpurgo, Michael.
The sleeping sword. 2002.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle
stumbles one day into an underground
tomb containing a shield and a
beautiful ancient sword. As he touches
the hilt. his whole body is gripped by
an incredible, centuries old power. It is
a power that will change Bun's life
forever.
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Mould, Chris.
Pip and the wood witch curse.
2011. Suggested reading age 7+.
1v.
The great walled city of Hangman's
Hollow is at war with the forest outside.
Into this war, one dreadful winter's
night, fate delivers a skinny, helpless
boy. But maybe Pip isn't as helpless as
he seems. Maybe he is the one who
will defeat the wood witches and
rescue the children of Hangman's
Hollow ...
Nelson, D. A.
DarkIsle. 2008. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
For 10-year-old Morag, there's nothing
magical about the cellar of her cruel
foster parents' home. But that's where
she meets Aldiss, a talking rat, and his
resourceful companion, Bertie the
dodo. She jumps at the chance to run
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away and join them on their race
against time to save their homeland
from the evil warlock Devlish, who is
intent on destroying it. But first, Bertie
and Aldiss will need to stop bickering
long enough to free the only guide who
knows where to find Devlish: Shona, a
dragon who's been turned to stone.
Together, these four friends begin their
journey to a mysterious dark island
beyond the horizon, where danger and
glory await - along with clues to the
disappearance of Morag's parents,
whose destiny seems somehow linked
to her own.
Ness, Patrick
The knife of never letting go.
2009. Suggested reading age
13+. 3v.
Book 1 of the Chaos Walking series
(other books in the series are also
available). Imagine you're the only boy
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in a town of men and you can hear
everything they think - and they can
hear everything you think. Imagine you
don't fit in with their plans... Todd
Hewitt is just one month away from the
birthday that will make him a man but
his town has been keeping secrets
from him. Secrets that are going to
force him to run.
Nicholson, William.
The wind singer. 2000.
Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Wind on Fire series.
In the walled city state of Aramanth,
exams are everything. When Kestrel
Hath dares to rebel, the Chief
Examiner humiliates her father and
sentences the whole family to the
harshest punishment. Desperate to
save them, Kestrel learns the secret of
the wind singer.
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Nimmo, Jenny.
The snow spider. 1986.
Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.
Book 1 of the Snow Spider series.
(Other books in this series are also
available.) On his birthday Gwyn is
given some strange gifts by his
grandmother. They lead him to the
snow spider and a series of
encounters with strange other worlds
of snow and silver, finally revealing the
fate of his lost elder sister.
Nimmo, Jenny.
Midnight for Charlie Bone. 2002.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Children of the Red King
series. (Other books in this series are
also available.) When he is 10 years
old, Charlie discovers that he is able to
look at photographs and hear
conversations and thoughts that were
taking place at the time the photo was
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taken. Charlie hears one conversation
that sets him on a search for a girl who
has been missing for years…
Nimmo, Jenny.
Ultramarine. 1992. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
Ned and Nell cannot understand their
dreams of the sea, and when three
strangers come to the house their
terrifying past comes closer. Only
Arion, the man from the sea, can help
them.
Nix, Garth.
Mister Monday. 2004. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Keys to the Kingdom
series. Arthur Penhaligon is not
supposed to be a hero. He is
supposed to die. But then he meets
sinister Mister Monday and everything
changes. Seven days, seven keys,
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one mysterious book, one strange
house filled with secrets.
Nix, Garth.
Sabriel. 1995. Suggested reading
age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 in the Old Kingdom series.
(Other books in this series are also
available.) Ever since Sabriel was a
tiny child, she has lived outside the
Wall of the Old Kingdom - far away
from the uncontrolled power of Free
Magic, and away from the Dead who
won't stay dead. But now her father is
missing and Sabriel is called upon to
cross back into that world to find him.
Paolini, Christopher.
Eragon. 2004. Suggested reading
age 13+. 5v.
Book 1 of the Inheritance series (other
books in the series are also available).
When Eragon finds a dragon hatchling,
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he soon realizes that he has stumbled
upon a legacy nearly as old as the
Empire itself. Overnight he is thrust
into a perilous new world of destiny,
magic, and power.
Pattou, Edith.
North child. 2006. Suggested
reading age 9+. 4v.
Rose was born into the world facing
north, and as a north child, superstition
says that she will be a wanderer,
travelling far from home. This
prophecy is fulfilled when she is taken
on the back of a white bear to a
mysterious empty castle, where a
silent stranger appears to her night
after night. When her curiosity
overcomes her, she loses her heart,
and must journey to a land east of the
sun and west of the moon to reclaim it.
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Paver, Michelle.
Wolf brother. 2005. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 of the chronicles of ancient
darkness series. (Other books in this
series are also available.) Thousands
of years ago and the land is one dark
forest. Then an ambitious and
malevolent force conjures a demon so
evil that it can be contained only in the
body of a ferocious bear that will slay
everything it sees.
Pearce, Jackson.
Sweetly. 2011. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
As a child, Gretchen's twin sister was
taken by a witch-like monster in the
woods. Ever since, Gretchen and her
brother, Ansel, have felt the long
branches of the witch's forest
threatening to make them disappear,
too. When their stepmother casts
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Gretchen and Ansel out as teens, they
stumble upon a sleepy Southern town.
Pearce, Philippa.
Tom's midnight garden. 1998.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
When Tom hears the grandfather clock
strike 13, he is not prepared for what is
going to happen. Outside the back
door is a garden, which everyone tells
him doesn't exist. But the magical
place in which Tom finds himself is
certainly a garden - his midnight
garden.
Pratchett, Terry.
The amazing Maurice and his
educated rodents. 2002.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Discworld (children's)
series. Scruffy tomcat Maurice has the
perfect fiddle going. He has a stupidlooking kid for a piper and his very own
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plague of strangely educated rats. And
knowing the stories about rats and
pipers, everyone is giving him money.
Until they go to Bad Blintz and find
someone playing a different tune.
Pratchett, Terry.
Nation. 2008. Suggested reading
age 9+. 3v.
Finding himself alone on a desert
island when everything and everyone
he knows and loved has been washed
away in a huge storm, Mau is the last
surviving member of his nation. He's
also completely alone - or so he thinks
until he finds the ghost girl. She has no
toes, wears strange lacy trousers like
the grandfather bird and gives him a
stick which can make fire.
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Pratchett, Terry.
Truckers. 1988. Suggested
reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 in the Bromeliad / Nomes
series. (Other books in this series are
also available.) To the tiny nomes
under the floorboards of a large
department store, there is no Outside.
Then a devastating piece of news
shatters their existence: the Store is to
be demolished.
Prue, Sally.
Cold Tom. 2008. Suggested
reading age 13+. 1v.
Tom is one of the Tribe. But he is not
like the others - he is clumsy and
heavy, and the Tribe drive him away
into the demon city. But Tom can't live
with demons either - they are so hot,
so foul, and he knows they are trying
to enslave his mind. But there is
nowhere else to run. Between the
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savage Tribe and the stifling demons,
is there any way out for Tom? A
beautiful and exciting story about a
Tom, caught between his elfin home
and the world of humans.
Pullman, Philip
Clockwork, or all wound up.
1996. Suggested reading age 9+.
1v.
One cold winter's evening, Fritz the
novelist starts to tell his latest tale. His
strange series of stories start to fit
together - almost like clockwork. As
the story unfolds, life and clockwork
merge most peculiarly in this chilling
suspense story.
Pullman, Philip
Northern lights. 1998. Suggested
reading age 13+. 3v.
Book 1 of the His Dark Materials
trilogy. (Other titles in the trilogy are
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also available.) When Lyra's friend
Roger disappears, she and her
daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to
find him. Their quest leads them to the
bleak splendour of the North where a
team of scientists are conducting
unspeakably horrible experiments. But
something more perilous awaits Lyra.
Reeve, Philip.
Mortal engines. 2002. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Hungry City Chronicles.
(Other books in this series are also
available.) In a world where moving
cities trawl the globe, Tom and Hester
have been thrown out of theirs and left
stranded and starving in the middle of
nowhere. Hester is desperate for
revenge while Tom is only desperate
to get back on board his beloved
London.
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Ridley, Philip.
Krindlekrax. 2001. Suggested
reading age 9+. 1v.
Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with
knock-knees, thick glasses and a
squeaky voice, and the idea of him
taming a dragon makes the whole
class laugh.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and
the philosopher's stone. 1997.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Harry Potter series.
(Other books in this series are also
available.) Harry had lived with his
aunt, uncle and cousin for ten
miserable years, in a cupboard under
the stairs. Until he is rescued by an
owl and taken to Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry where he
becomes a wizard.
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Sage, Angie.
Magyk. 2006. Suggested reading
age 9+. 3v.
Book 1 of the Septimus Heap series
(other books in the series are also
available). A baby girl is rescued from
a snowy path in the woods. A young
queen is taken ill. An extraordinary
wizard mysteriously resigns from his
post. And all on the same night. A
string of events, seemingly
unconnected, begins to converge ten
years later…
Singleton, Sarah.
Century. 2005. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Mercy and her sister Charity have
never questioned that they live at
night, sleep during the day and see
their widowed father only rarely - their
house shrouded in perpetual winter.
Then a chance meeting with the
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mysterious Claudius sets Mercy to
questioning everything she has ever
known.
Skelton, Matthew.
Endymion Spring. 2006.
Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.
In a college library in Oxford, Blake
finds a battered old volume, with a
strange clasp like a serpent's head with real fangs. Printed on its front are
words: Endymion Spring. The paper
quivers, as if it's alive. And as Blake
looks, words begin to appear on the
page; words no one else can see…
Stewart, Paul
Beyond the deepwoods. 2006.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
Book 1 of the Edge chronicles.(Other
books in this series are also available).
Abandoned at birth in the perilous
Deepwoods, Twig is bought up by a
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family of woodtrolls. One cold night,
Twig does what no woodtroll has ever
done before - he strays from the path.
So begins a heart-stopping adventure .
Taylor, G.P.
Shadowmancer. 2003. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who
will stop at nothing to control the
highest power in the universe. The
only people in his way are Raphael,
Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious
Jacob Crane. Their tortured struggles
lead them to a dramatic climax in the
gothic church of St Mary's.
Thompson, Kate
The new policeman. 2006.
Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.
JJ finds where time goes! Music
proves to be the touchstone for
communication between the fairy and
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the human domains and the book is
saturated with the lure of Irish music.
As for the New Policeman, his identity
is kept a superbly guarded secret to
the very last surprising moment.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The hobbit. 1937. Suggested
reading age 13+. 2v.
A tale of the adventure of a company
of dwarves in search of dragonguarded gold. A reluctant partner in
this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a
comfort-loving, unambitious hobbit,
who surprises even himself by his
resourcefulness and skill as a burglar.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The fellowship of the ring. 1954.
Suggested reading age 15+. 4v.
Book 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
(other books in this series are also
available). A saga of dwarves, elves,
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and fierce goblins of long ago, and the
story of Frodo, who, through the Ring,
sets out to save his world from evil.
Walsh, Pat
The Crowfield curse. 2010.
Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.
It's 1347 and fifteen-year-old Will, an
orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey.
Sent into the forest to gather wood, he
rescues instead, a creature from a trap
- a hob, who shares with Will a terrible
secret. Somewhere in the forest
behind the abbey where he lives, is a
grave. And buried deep in the snow is
an angel. But how can an angel die?
What has it to do with the monks of the
Abbey? When two hooded strangers
arrive at Crowfield asking questions
about the angel's grave. Will is drawn
into a world of dangerous Old Magic.
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Warburton, Ruth
A witch in winter. 2012.
Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.
Anna Winterson doesn't know she's a
witch and would probably mock you for
believing in magic, but after moving to
the small town of Winter with her
father, she learns more than she ever
wanted to about power.
Westerfeld, Scott.
The secret hour. 2006. Suggested
reading age 11+. 2v.
Book 1 in the Midnighters series (other
books in this series are also available).
Strange things happen at midnight in
the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time
freezes. Nobody moves. Only a small
group of people know about the secret
hour - only they are free to move about
the midnight time. These people call
themselves Midnighters and each one
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has a different power that is strongest
at midnight.
Wooding, Chris
Storm thief. Suggested reading
age 13+. 2v.
Set on the island city of Orokos, an
isolated civilization that - to its
inhabitants - is the only place in the
world. If there's more out there, no one
knows, because anyone who's ever
dared explore the waters beyond a
certain limit gets torn apart by
artificially intelligent drones patrolling
just beneath the surface. The titular
Storm Thief isn't a character, but is
rather the anthropomorphic
personification given to the probability
storms that occasionally rage over the
city - storms that literally change the
reality of the landscape.