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Author
Publisher
Zephyr
Pub. Date
2019
Description
From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch-perfect story about a crystal chandelier that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning. It is 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House in a freezing city by the sea, where a huge, crystal chandelier...
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Series
Ned?s Circus of Marvels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2016
Description
From exciting debut author, Justin Fisher, comes this rip-roaring, page-turning new magical adventure. Perfect for fans of House of Secrets.Ned Waddlesworth has always considered his world to be exceptionally ordinary. Until the day he discovers it ISN?T. AT ALL. Because on Ned?s thirteenth birthday he discovers that everything magical he?s ever read about or imagined is REAL.And without him, the world will soon be engulfed in monstrous beasts and...
4) Shamanka
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Join Sam in her thrilling quest to discover the meaning of magic - and uncover the secrets behind famous magic tricks, illusions and other mysterious skills, along the way.
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The Chronicles of Never After volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A young girl finds herself thrown into the world of her favourite book series when the final volume isn't published and the lead character appears in her home asking for her help.
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Sophie and the Shadow Woods volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm - a dark and chaotic world where all kinds of gruesome creatures live? On her tenth birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of the magical gateway, and that her destiny is to protect the human world from the goblins, trolls and evil sprites that inhabit the Shadow Woods. Each book sees Sophie having to outwit weird and terrifying creatures from the Shadow Woods, starting with the...
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Midnight's Twins volume 2
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In a city that sleeps, the darkness is gathering ... For Londoner Fern King, Annwn is her second home - the dream mirror of London, the city she loves. An astonishing world, a world where Dreamers walk in their slumber, their dreams playing out all around them. And Fern, along with her twin brother Ollie, is now a Knight, a trusted guardian and protector of those Dreamers - and every night is spent in Annwn, fulfilling that previously only-imagined...
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Edie and the Flits volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
An eleven-year-old girl finds a family of tiny winged people, visible only to children, when she visits the London Underground lost property office where her father works.
9) Mary Poppins
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Series
Appears on list
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The classic story of a governess who takes two children on magical adventures.
10) Cromwell?s cat
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Publisher
Matador
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Historians have argued about him and his motives ever since, but no-one?s been able to hear it from his point of view - until now. In chewing over events with his cat, Tomkins, Cromwell at last tells it like it was. After all, when did your cat ever ask you ?Who are you trying to impress?? Never, of course - and neither does Tomkins. He hears all and, because he and Cromwell find early on that they talk the same language, he reveals all: Cromwell?s...
11) The unholy grail
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Series
Groosham Grange volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Someone is trying to destroy David Eliot's school. A year ago, he'd have been happy to see the end of Groosham Grange and its ghoulish teachers. Now, he's on course to win the Unholy Grail, a cup of magical power presented to the star pupil. But a series of suspicious mishaps sees the gap between David and new boy Vincent King narrow alarmingly. Someone, it seems, is trying to stop David winning - and, worse, threatening Groosham Grange itself!.
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Series
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Winnie the Witch lives in a black house. She has black chairs and black stairs, black floors and black doors. Winnie?s cat Wilbur is black, too. And that is how the trouble begins! This ultimate collection by the creators of Winnie and Wilbur, Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul, features the following picture-book stories: Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie the Witch Winnie and Wilbur: The Naughty Knight Winnie and Wilbur Meet Santa Winnie and Wilbur: Happy Birthday,...
14) Troubletwisters
Author
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2013
Description
When Grandma X is put out of action by an accident that may or may not have been caused by The Evil, it's up to Jake and Jaide Shield to help their father recover a lost golden card from Portland's strangest landmark: Rourke Castle.
15) The lost gods
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The Gods' popularity on earth is waning, and without regular worship, their powers are fading fast. Meanwhile, their ancient enemies, the Frost Giants, are stirring. So the Gods hatch a plan - they'll come back down to earth, and they'll pursue a very different kind of popularity. They're going to become celebrities. A rollicking, thrilling and hilarious ride, 'The Lost Gods' takes up where the Sleeping Army left off and takes us back to Simon's brilliantly-imagined...
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Endgame The Fugitive Archives volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The Fugitive Archives comes to an explosive finale in this ninth digital original novella in the Endgame world, which follows a forbidden love that threatens Endgame in post-World War II Germany. Humanity rests on the shoulders of twelve Players. But when the lives of a Cahokian Player and a Minoan Player intertwine over the search. Humanity rests on the shoulders of twelve Players. But when the lives of a Cahokian Player and a Minoan Player intertwine...
17) The daydreamer
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love. 'As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl' Vogue 'Perfectly judged, scary, poignant, meaningful; he makes...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the Banks children, their lives go topsy-turvy and are changed forever.More than eighty years since we first met Mary Poppins, this original, classic story is still charming listeners and transporting new fans into the mysterious world of everyone?s favourite magical nanny.
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
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Stephanie joins forces with her dead uncle's companion, Skulduggery Pleasant (the living skeleton of a dead wizard), against the evil forces of wizards set on destroying the world .
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Description
A hardback collection of all eight Ghosts of the Shadow Market stories, along with two brand new ones, about characters from Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Shadowhunters series. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has...