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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

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The Witches

Roald Dahl · 208 pages

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

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Talking to Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 255 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA science fiction. Young Daystar, raised by his mother Cimorene at the edge of the Enchanted Forest, is sent out on an adventure with a magical sword, meeting a young fire witch and an immature dragon on the way. This is the fourth book of the Enchanted Forest series, and takes place a generation after the first.

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 880 pages

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Murtagh: The World of Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 688 pages

The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air - and Murtagh s

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Cackle

Rachel Harrison · 291 pages

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Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum · 216 pages

After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.

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An Enemy at Green Knowe

L.M. Boston, Peter Boston · 163 pages

The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.

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A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami · 299 pages

It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum

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The Spook's Curse

Joseph Delaney · 455 pages

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there’s some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. The Bane! But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives, intent on hunting down anyone who meddles with the dark. Thom

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The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C.S.Lewis · 154 pages

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four adventurous children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs

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The Enchantress Returns

Chris Colfer · 448 pages

Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother! Against the will of their grandmother, the twins must find their own way into. The Land of Stories is no longer the joyful world Alex and Conner Bailey remember from their Wishing Spell adventure: The

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Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch

Eric Orchard · 89 pages

The Thimblewitch turned Maddy's parents into kangaroo rats, and now they are gone. Maddy and her pet flying toad set out to find the witch and rescue Maddy's parents. Book #1

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Elidor

Alan Garner · 173 pages

A mechanical street map, a deserted slum, a church in ruins, and a football. Four ordinary things lead the Watson children on an extraordinary adventure to a magical land called Elidor. In pursuit of four ancient treasures, the forces of evil have crossed over into our world, and it falls to the Watson children to find the treasures, seal the bridge between worlds, and guard the strayed unicorn Fi

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The Castle of Llyr

Lloyd Alexander · 174 pages

When Princess Eilonwy is sent to the Isle of Mona for training, she is bewitched by the evil enchantress Achren, so Taran and other friends must try to rescue her.

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Lirael

Garth Nix · 526 pages

When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.

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May Bird and the Ever After

Jodi Lynn Anderson · 352 pages

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The Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett · 320 pages

A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and

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The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Illustrated

L Frank Baum · 160 pages

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (/ɒz/) is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in May 1900.[1] It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film.The story

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The Grey King

Susan Cooper · 208 pages

*"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old..."* With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries. But an illness has robbed Will of nearly al

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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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The Gunslinger

Stephen King · 238 pages

***The Gunslinger is the first book of the Dark Tower series. "Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you've ever read." Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, is in relentless pursuit of the man in black through his strange and desolate world that is oddly similar to our own. He enc

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The Inferno

Dante Alighieri · 288 pages

Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.

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