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10 best books like Enchanted Glass (Diana Wynne Jones): Thresholds, The Hounds of the Mórrígan, Dragonhaven, Magic Below Stairs, A String in the Harp, Kat, Incorrigible, The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories, Bone and Jewel Creatures, The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After, Flora's Dare

Thresholds
AuthorNina Kiriki Hoffman
ISBN0670063193
Maya's family has just moved from Idaho to Spores Ferry, Oregon. She's nervous about starting middle school and making new friends, but soon that's the last thing on her mind. First, a fairy flies into her room. Then it turns out that the kids in the apartment building next door do magic, and their basement...
The Hounds of the Mórrígan
AuthorPat O'Shea
ISBN0192752812
A wonderfully written fantasy set in the west of Ireland, which tells of the coming of the Great Queen who is bent on bringing destruction to the world. Only Pidge and Brigit can stop her, and their task seems impossible as they're constantly trailed by the queen's hounds. But they're aided in their quest...
Dragonhaven
AuthorRobin McKinley
ISBN0399246754
Dragonhaven is the book that singlehandedly demoted Robin McKinley from an auto-buy author to a "check out her book in the library first" author for me. I've had issues with a lot of her other recent novels--some of them are quite odd, and she's developed a fondness for incomprehensible, nightmarish...
Magic Below Stairs
AuthorCaroline Stevermer
ISBN0803734670
Young Frederick is plucked from an orphanage to be a footboy for a wizard named Lord Schofield in Victorian England. Is his uncanny ability to tie perfect knots and render boots spotless a sign of his own magical talent, or the work of Billy Bly, the brownie who has been secretly watching over him since...
A String in the Harp
AuthorNancy Bond
ISBN0689804458
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond is one of those novels I love so much it almost hurts. It concerns the Morgan family – Jen, Peter and Becky - who, after their mother is killed in car crash, move from Massachusetts to Wales. Still reeling from the blow, the family is falling apart. Peter, in particular,...
Kat, Incorrigible
AuthorStephanie Burgis
ISBN1416994475
Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she's inherited her mother's magical talents, and despite Stepmama's stern objections, she's determined to learn how to use them.

But with her eldest sister Elissa's intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing a dangerous interest...
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN1931520577
This is the first complete collection of Joan Aiken’s beloved Armitage stories—and it includes four new, unpublished stories. After Mrs. Armitage makes a wish, the Armitage family has “interesting and unusual” experiences every Monday (and the occasional Tuesday). The Board of Incantation...
Bone and Jewel Creatures
AuthorElizabeth Bear
ISBN1596062746
Dark magic is afoot in the City of Jackals...

Eighty years Bijou the Artificer has been a Wizard of Messaline, building her servants from precious scraps, living with the memory of a great love that betrayed her. She is ready to rest.

But now her former apprentice, Brazen the Enchanter,...
The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After
AuthorPatricia C. Wrede
ISBN0152055487
Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James and Cecy's search reveals a shocking truth ...

The...
Flora's Dare
AuthorYsabeau S. Wilce
ISBN0152054278
Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to be a ranger, and for that she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. But before she can find the ideal teacher, her aspirations are put to the test. Would a true ranger be intimidated by a tentacle that reaches for her from the depths...
Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary
AuthorPamela Dean
ISBN0312859708
Inspired by a traditional ballad, Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is the tale of a mysterious young man and three ordinary young girls, of ancient magic and the modern world.
Three sisters live comfortably with their parents: Juniper, 16, who likes cooking and computer chats; Gentian, 13, who...
Well Witched
AuthorFrances Hardinge
ISBN0060880384
Ryan and his friends don't think twice about stealing some money from a wishing well. After all, who's really going to miss a few tarnished coins?

The well witch does.

And she demands payback: Now Ryan, Josh, and Chelle must serve her . . . and the wishes that lie rotting at the bottom of...
The Shadow Hunt
AuthorKatherine Langrish
ISBN0061116769
Wolf is on the run—from the oppressive monastery where he was raised, from the ghosts and demons that haunt the windswept moors of Devil's Edge, and from the shadows in the landscape that resemble the Devil himself.

When Wolf rescues a strange child on Devil's Edge, he takes her to a grand castle...
The Sorcerer's House
AuthorGene Wolfe
In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progressively reveals the intriguing pieces of a strange and...
The Thief Queen's Daughter
AuthorElizabeth Haydon
ISBN0765308681
Long ago, in the Second Age of history, a young Nain explorer by the name of Ven Polypheme traveled much of the known and unknown world, recording his adventures. Recently discovered by archaeologists, a few fragments of his original journals are reproduced in this book. Great care has been taken to...
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