HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2014. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0007542232 (ISBN13: 9780007542239) Aileen was supposed to grow up magical – just like the other women in her family. Unfortunately, she’s just found out that the magic seems to have skipped a generation… but that’s not her biggest problem right now. In her world, there are four Islands of Chaldea. The largest and most...
Avon Books, 1994. — 412 p. — ISBN: 0380718510 (ISBN13: 9780380718511) Our world has long been protected by "The Ring" - a benevolent secret society of witches and conjurers dedicated to the continuance and well-being of humankind. Now, in the face of impending climatic disaster, the Ring has uncovered a conspiracy potentially more destructive than any it has ever had to contend...
Firebird, 2012. — 334 p. — ISBN: 0142420158 (ISBN13: 9780142420157) Time City is built on a patch of time and space outside history. It is full of wonders and haunted by "time ghosts," but it is nearly worn out and doomed to destruction. In September 1939, Vivian Smith is on a train, being evacuated from London, when she is kidnapped by two boys from Time City, Jonathan and...
Greenwillow Books, 2003. — 324 p. — ISBN: 0060298898 (ISBN13: 9780060298890) The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the "goon" sitting in the kitchen. He said he'd been sent by Archer. But who was Archer? It had to do with the 2,000 words that Howard's author father had failed to deliver. It soon became clear not only that Archer wanted those...
Greenwillow Books, 2003. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0064473589 (ISBN13: 9780064473583) A magical classic novel from the Godmother of British fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. On the surface, Great Aunt Maria seems like a harmless old lady. But when Mig and her family go to visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules Cranbury-on-Sea with a rod of sweetness that’s tougher than iron and deadlier...
Greenwillow Books, 1999. — 165 p. — ISBN: 0688168434 (ISBN13: 9780688168438) Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana Wynne Jones. Here are seven tales -- seven doorways to bizarre, yet strangely familiar worlds -- to...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0060511621; ISBN13: 9780060511623. Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her...
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2013. — 2209 p. — ASIN B00CYJ71PM. Welcome to the worlds of Chrestomanci, where magic is as common as mathematics and anything can happen… an exclusive ebook collection of the entire seven book series by the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones. Welcome to the worlds of Chrestomanci, where magic is as common as mathematics and anything can happen… an...
HarperCollins e-books, 2004. — 348 p. — ASIN B002XXGIGW. His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he can bring real, solid things...
Harper Collins Children's eBooks, 2000. — 272 p. Someone in 6B is a witch. And, in the alternate reality described in Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week, that's not at all a good thing to be. Jones plunks her readers directly into the life of Larwood House, a school in a present-day England that's a lot like the world we know, except for one major difference: witches are...
Greenwillow Books, 2001. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0060298782; ISBN13: 9780060298784. Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl...
HarperCollins, 2009. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0007278195; ISBN13: 9780007278190. Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances - well, quite frankly, he is doomed. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical...
A 3S digital back-up edition 1.0, 2006. — 124 p. Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it. But he's not the only one snooping around. His fellow servant-in-training, Christopher...
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2006. — 458 p. — ISBN: 0007228546; ISBN13: 9780007228546. Cat heard a muffled tapping. At first he thought it was coming from the window, but when he sat up and listened, he knew the noise was coming from inside his room. He snapped the light on. Sure enough, the big mauve-speckled egg was rocking gently. Spells always have consequences, so even...
HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013. — 509 p. — ISBN: 0007507577; ISBN13: 9780007507573. Once a year Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties travel to another world for the chance to experience a real-life Fantasy Land: complete with Dark Lord, dragons, and epic battles between the armies of good and evil. But the tourist trade is devastating the world and its people. They're ready to...
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2014. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0007507607; ISBN13: 9780007507603. A hilarious fantasy sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm, set at the Wizard University, and centred around six fantastical students. From the ‘Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. The Year of the Griffin is the sequel to the Dark Lord of Derkholm, set in the same world several years...
HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2015. — 523 p. — ASIN B00PPVRB7O Come on a journey through the magical worlds of the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones. This exclusive ebook collection of three titles contains A Tale of Time City, The Homeward Bounders, and her final published novel (completed by her sister Ursula Jones), The Islands of Chaldea. Welcome to the world of Diana Wynne...
HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2015. — 713 p. — ASIN B00PPVRB7E Take a fantastical journey through the worlds of magic and myth with the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones. This exclusive ebook collection of four titles contains The Game, Power of Three, Eight Days of Luke and Dogsbody. Welcome to the world of Diana Wynne Jones, where magic and myths collide to take you on a...
Firebird, 2012. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0142420131 (ISBN13: 9780142420133) A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones--with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on the planet Earth until he can carry out a seemingly impossible mission...
Greenwillow Books, 2012. — 128 p. — ISBN: 006207511X (ISBN13: 9780062075116) "I would like to declare Diana Wynne Jones an international treasure," proclaimed Neil Gaiman, Newbery Medalist and best-selling author. In this enchanting introduction to Diana Wynne Jones's magical and funny work, Earwig is a fearless young orphan. When she finds herself in a house of dark magic, she...
Greenwillow Books, 2003. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0064473570 (ISBN13: 9780064473576) There seemed nothing strange about Luke to begin with, except perhaps the snakes. If they were snakes - David wasn't sure. He was just grateful for a companion as agreeable as Luke, who seemed able to twist anyone round his finger, even David's odious relatives. "Just kindle a flame and I'll be with...
Greenwillow Books, 2010. — 292 p. — ISBN: 0061866849 (ISBN13: 9780061866845) Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble—a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melstone House. But when Aidan arrives on the doorstep, he...
CollinsVoyager, 2000. — 393 p. — ISBN: 0006755194 (ISBN13: 9780006755197) Polly has always loved the fire and hemlock photograph which hangs above her bed, with its suggestion of mysterious dark figures and undiscovered secrets. But now, it sparks memories in her that don't seem to exist any more. Memories of Thomas Lynn, who became her greatest friend... Memories of the...
HarperCollins, 2013. — 158 p. — ISBN: 000750747X (ISBN13: 9780007507474) The Four Grannies. A boy and a girl are left alone for a couple of days, while their parents go away on a business trip. They have four very different grandmas - a mean one, a snobby one, an anxious one, and a delicate one. Erg (the boy) uses household objects to make an invention for his own amusement,...
Not Avail, 2000. — 379 p. — ISBN: 0006755267 (ISBN13: 9780006755265) When Controller Borasus receives a strange letter from Earth he is both curious and alarmed. Someone has activated an ancient machine and is using it for most trivial purposes. Surely no one would dare to tamper with Reigner seals in this way? Yet the effects of such interference resonate throughout the...
In the land of Ingary where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined lo make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which hovers on the nearby hills. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard...
Harper Trophy, 2001. — 329 p. — ISBN: 006441034X; ISBN13: 9780064410342. In the land of Ingary where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined lo make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which...
Science Fiction Book Club, 2012. Howl's castle is a tall, black building with four thin turrets. It seems to be made of blocks of coal (a suitable habitat for a fire demon) and is "bespelled to hold together." It seems to have four doors on the outside, although three are made inaccessible by an invisible wall. The inside of the castle is made of the house where Calcifer is based,...
Science Fiction Book Club, 2002. — 376 p. — ISBN: 0739423851; ISBN13: 9780739423851. Dianne Wynne Jones is the secret master of fantasy books about young people. This book is a rollicking ride filled with puzzles and prophecies and contains the book Howl's Moving Castle, and the book Castle In the Air.
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.
Greenwillow Books, 1990. — 383 p. — ISBN: 0061478776; ISBN13: 9780061478772. In this stunning sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones has again created a large-scale, fast-paced fantasy in which people and things are never quite what they seem. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a...
Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places—the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and the Royal Mansion, to name just a...
The Sequel to Howl's Moving Castle. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great-Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy. But Great-Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland, and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places—the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains, the past, and...
HarperCollins, 2013. — 526 p. — ISBN: 0007507542; ISBN13: 9780007507542. A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy. Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables’ mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on...
HarperCollins Children's Books, 2013. — 558 p. — ISBN: 0007507763; ISBN13: 9780007507764. A bestselling fantasy adventure about two teens from two very different worlds, who must work together to save the universe. The companion novel to the bestselling Deep Secret. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and...
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2012. — ISBN: 9780007389025 Glorious rejacket of the story collection set in the worlds of Chrestomanci. The stories featured in this collection are: Warlock at the Wheel Stealer of Souls Carol Oneir’s Hundredth Dream The Sage of Theare Everybody’s favourite nine-lifed enchanter makes a guest appearance in each tale. Plus man favourites from...
Harper Collins Children's Books, 1976. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0007113706 (ISBN13: 9780007113705) This is the story of Ayna and Ceri, who both had Gifts, and of Gair, who thought he was ordinary. Gair spent his time gazing out onto the Moor and brooding. Ayna could answer questions about the future, Ceri could find things which were lost. Gair seems to have no Gift and knew he was a...
Greenwillow Books, 2012. — 400 p. — ISBN: 0062219898 (ISBN13: 9780062219893) This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces chosen by Diana Wynne Jones before her death in 2011 is essential reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the fantasy genre and creative writing in general. The volume includes...
Greenwillow Books, 2004. — 132 p. — ISBN: 0060562064 (ISBN13: 9780060562069) In three wild and wacky tales, find out what can happen when...An old armchair that you've finally decided to get rid of comes to life -- and has a definite attitude. It thinks it can rule the entire household! ...Not one, but four grannies come to take care of you and your stepsister. You manage to...
HarperTrophy, 2001. — 222 p. — ISBN: 0064473139; ISBN13: 9780064473132. For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- must join forces to reunify their beloved land. When Moril inherits his...
HarperTrophy, 2001. — 324 p. — ISBN: 0064473147; ISBN13: 9780064473149. The second volume of The Dalemark Quartet continues the story of the mythical land of Dalemark, and the four people chosen to reunify the divided lands.
HarperTrophy, 2001. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0064473155; ISBN13: 9780064473156. The story of the mythical land of Dalemark, and the four young people enlisted by the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, are continued in this third volume of The Dalemark Quartet.
HarperTrophy, 2001. — 496 p. — ISBN: 0064473163; ISBN13: 9780064473163. For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warning earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- must join forced to reunify their beloved land.
Firebird, 2007. — 181 p. — ISBN: 0142407186 (ISBN13: 9780142407189) Hayley’s parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grandma is much too strict and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley does something wrong—she is not quite sure what—they pack her...
Harper Trophy, 2002. — 265 p. — ISBN: 0064473538 (ISBN13: 9780064473538) If he finds the right world, Jaime can get Home again. When Jaime stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wander in hope of one day finding his way back to his own city....
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2014. — 750 p. — ASIN B00MMSALJS Discover the the land of Ingary, where magic and adventure awaits… Howl’s Moving Castle is the first book in this spellbinding trilogy from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. Howl’s Moving Castle: Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she...
HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2014. — 228 p. — ASIN B00NENXNGS Diana Wynne Jones at her finest – family feuds and chaos, magic with hilarious results and some of the most original ideas ever to appear between the covers of a book. Casper, Johnny and Gwinny get a big shock when their mother marries the Ogre. The Ogre is large and stern and not at all interested in children,...
HarperTrophy, 1981. — 291 p. — ISBN: 0064473546 (ISBN13: 9780064473545) There's been an accident! Something's wrong! She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken -- and learns...
Firebird, 2006. — 234 p. — ISBN: 0142407224 (ISBN13: 9780142407226) Imagine that all fantasy novels--the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic--are set in the same place. That place is called Fantasyland. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is your travel guide, a handbook to everything you might find: Evil, the Dark Lord, Stew, Boots (but not Socks), and what passes...
Greenwillow Books, 2005. — 590 p. — ISBN: 0060555351 (ISBN13: 9780060555351) Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents a riveting collection of unpredictable tales, including: A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast. When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to life, and she must protect her home from them Four...
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, 2012. — 219 p. — ISBN: 0007489420 (ISBN13: 9780007489428) Two hilarious stories from the bestselling and well-loved author Diana Wynne Jones, about the worst visitors in the world coming to stay. In Vile Visitors, we meet Angus Flint and Chair Person – the worst guests in the world. In Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? We meet a man so mean, he even...
Not Avail, 2001. — 96 p. — ISBN: 0006755240 (ISBN13: 9780006755241) Heather finds the mound when she tries to escape the hordes of tourists who invade the stately home where she lives. 'Wild Robert, I wish you were really under there!' she cries. 'You could come out and deal with the tourists!' All of a sudden, there is a smell like earth and strange spices. A voice says, 'Did...
Greenwillow Books, 2004. — 201 p. — ISBN: 0060087846 (ISBN13: 9780060087845) They're in the "revenge" business Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four whole months That means that Jess can't go anywhere or do anything with her friends. Worse yet, Frank owes money to Buster Knell, the bully. How can Jess and Frank earn some cash - fast? By starting a...
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