Diana Wynne Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
6) The game
Author
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her past are revealed.
7) Dogsbody
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1990, 1975.
Language
English
Description
Sirius the dog star, is reborn on earth as a puppy with a mission to search for the lost Zoi, the murder weapon of the stars.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping,sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and herparents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day sheaccidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Always perfectly magical." —Neil Gaiman
A timeless classic with brand-new cover art! Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer.
Volume II contains The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
In the Magicians of Caprona, the two warring families of Caprona, the
...Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Always perfectly magical." —Neil Gaiman
A timeless classic with brand-new cover art! Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer.
Volume I contains Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant.
In Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci book,
...Author
Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Publisher
Eos/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Cat and Christopher Chant make the most unusual friends. Christopher befriends a boy with terrible karma in a mansion where everything keeps changing. Then, Cat meets a girl whose family of rogue witches is hiding terrible secrets. Will the Chrestomanci be able to sort out the tangle of mysteries and magic?
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces written and/or chosen by Diana Wynne Jones will be required reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the genre. Reflections includes insightful literary criticism alongside autobiographical anecdotes about reading tours (including an account of the author's famous travel jinx), revelations about the origins of the author's books,...
Author
Series
Derkholm volume 1
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. The vengeful Witch of the Waste, jealous of their friendship, puts a spell on Sophie. In a life changing adventure, Sophie climbs aboard Howl's magnificent moving castle and enters a magical world on a quest to break the spell.
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