Arabel's Raven

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	1416949658

"When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back, three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone; five will return, and one go alone.”

With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker,...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689840330

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	0689840349

Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance...

Author

Ben Guterson

An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel full of secrets.

Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly...

Author	Susan Cooper
ISBN	1416949674

"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...

Author	K.M. Peyton
ISBN	0955191092

In a way I'm glad I read one of Peyton's books right at the start of my pony book discovery for she's by far the best author I've read in the genre and now I can focus on her back catalogue. Then again, it does set an impossible standard for all the authors I have yet to discover.

Fly-By-Night is special...

Author	Jacqueline West
ISBN	0803734417

The mysteries grow deeper and the secrets darker in the second volume of the New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.

With no way into the McMartin house's magical paintings and its three guardian cats reluctant to help, Olive's friend Morton is still trapped inside Elsewhere....

Author	John Verney
ISBN	0030810051

As Britain debates leaving the European Union, it made me feel old to read this novel of the years when Britain wanted to join the EU. This is the fourth volume (at least in the US) of a series that began with an undiscovered fictional element called caprium, not really a metal but "pure energy," being discovered...

Author

Della T. Lutes

Written before WWII, about the author's childhood, this memoir still reads, to me, as if only one generation back. Farm life didn't change much until quite recently, and in some ways still hasn't. I do thank goodness I don't have to deal with the capricious, egotistical, and self-centered old man Della's...

Author	Stella Pevsner
ISBN	0590044834

I received this book for as a Christmas present from my fourth grade teacher Mrs. Logan. I really liked it at the time and reread it frequently when we were making fewer trips to the library. (All the books I owned I read over and over and over again.) The things I remember the most about it were that it got sort...