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The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Susan Cooper · 1,088 pages

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Parsifal's Page

Gerald Morris · 240 pages

In medieval England, eleven-year-old Piers' dream comes true when he becomes page to Parsifal, a peasant whose quest for knighthood reveals important secrets about both of their families.

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The Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander · 217 pages

Taran is bored with his Assistant Pig-Keeper duties, even though his charge is none other than Hen Wen, Prydain's only oracular pig. He'd rather be doing something more heroic, like making swords and learning to use them. When Hen Wen escapes and Taran goes after her, he finds himself farther from home than he's ever been. Soon he begins to realize that heroism is no easy task. With the dreaded Ho

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Phantom

Terry Goodkind · 590 pages

Richard desperately searches for his long-lost, amnesiac beloved, Kahlan Amnell, racing against time to find her before she can uncover the secrets of her lost identity, thereby making her vulnerable to evil.

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The Indigo King

James A. Owen

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The Camelot Spell

Laura Anne Gilman

On the eve of the Quest for the Holy Grail, every adult in King Arthur's castle falls into an enchanted sleep. The future of Camelot rests on the shoulders of fourteen-year-old squire Gerard, who has dreamed of becoming a Knight of the Round Table his whole life. With the help of Newt, the stable boy, and Ailis, a young maidservant, he must face terrible dangers, including a monstrous bridge troll

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The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan · 558 pages

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea―except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been

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A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 198 pages

The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible sha

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Kingfisher

Patricia A. McKillip

Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver, Pierce has grown up working in her restaurant in Desolation Point. One day, unexpectedly, strangers pass through town on the way to the legendary capital city. "Look for us," they tell Pierce, "if you come to Severluna. You might find a place for yourself in King Arden's court." Lured by a future far away from the ble

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Steel Magic

Andre Norton · 155 pages

Sara, Eric, and Greg Lowery stumble into the enchanted land of Avalon. Once there the children must complete an important mission in order to return to their world.

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Taliesin

Stephen R. Lawhead · 512 pages

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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages

A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also

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Abarat

Clive Barker · 489 pages

Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand

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Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja

Masashi Kishimoto · 192 pages

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The Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland · 340 pages

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 Prince and the Pilgrim

Mary Stewart · 317 pages

Prince Alexander is spirited away as an infant to escape the jealous rage of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who murdered Alexander's father, but when he comes of age he must overcome the temptations of love, an enchantress and the Holy Grail in order to seek justice.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling · 332 pages

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adven

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The Magicians' Guild

Trudi Canavan · 480 pages

This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work--until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders ... and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has lon

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke · 272 pages

**From the *New York Times* bestselling author of *Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell*, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.** Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is im

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Lucan

Susan Kearney · 352 pages

Lucan is sent to Pendragon on a mission: to find the mythical Holy Grail. He enlists the help of high prietess Cael, only to awaken a powerful attraction between them.

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The Once and Future King

T.H. White · 642 pages

T. H. White's modern classic about King Arthur. This particular edition may have been published in Russia, but it is in fact written in English. I just finished reading this edition on the Open Library. I wonder why it is described as being written in Russian?

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Cold-Forged Flame

Marie Brennan

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The First Chronicles of Amber (Books 1-5)

Roger Zelazny · 730 pages

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Passager

Jane Yolen · 76 pages

A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.

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