The Sword

10 best books like The Sword (Deborah Chester): Magician: Apprentice, The Magic of Recluce, The Children of Green Knowe, The Seer and the Sword, Song in the Silence, Wolf Tower, The Sign of the Seahorse, Resenting the Hero, Over Sea, Under Stone, Path of Fate

Magician: Apprentice
AuthorRaymond E. Feist
ISBN0553564943
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.

To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. His courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, but he was ill at ease with normal wizardry. Yet his...
The Magic of Recluce
AuthorL.E. Modesitt Jr.
ISBN0812505182
Young Lerris is dissatisfied with his life and trade, and yearns to find a place in the world better suited to his skills and temperament. But in Recluce a change in circumstances means taking one of two options: permanent exile from Recluce or the dangergeld, a complex, rule-laden wanderjahr in the...
The Children of Green Knowe
AuthorLucy M. Boston
ISBN0152024689
L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.

There are three children: Toby, who rides the majestic horse Feste; his mischievous little sister, Linnet;...
AuthorVictoria Hanley
ISBN0440229774
Legend states that there exists a mighty sword that makes its possessor invincible to his enemies. But there is a curse on anyone who lifts the sword for conquest. King Kareed of Archeld goes after this sword anyway, winning it from the King of Bellandra. When he returns home from battle, he brings his...
AuthorElizabeth Kerner
ISBN0812550447
Lanen Kaelar has spent her life being told just how wrongheaded and foolish she is by her entire family. When Lanen's father dies, she chooses to leave her abusive relatives and search out the great dragons she has always dreamed of, though she knows what she seeks may not be real.

But those who...
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0142300306
All her life, Claidi has endured hardship in the House, where she must obey a spoiled princess. Then a golden stranger arrives, living proof of a world beyond the House walls. Claidi risks all to free the charming prisoner and accompanies him across the Waste toward his faraway home. It is a difficult...
AuthorGraeme Base
ISBN0810981548
Graeme Base is without a doubt one of my favorite author/illustrators. His book Animalia is one of my favorite picture books of all time. I love that he (like John Lithgow and his illustrating partner C.F Payne in particular) treats his audience of young readers with respect in both his lavish illustrations...
Resenting the Hero
AuthorMoira J. Moore
ISBN0441013880
In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the magical abilities of the bonded Pairs—Source and Shield—make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. The ties that bind them are far beyond the relationships between lovers or kin—and last their entire lives…Whether they like it or not.

Since...
Over Sea, Under Stone
AuthorSusan Cooper
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it...
AuthorDiana Pharaoh Francis
ISBN0451459504
In the land of Kodu Riik, becoming ahalad-kaaslane is the highest honor one can achieve. It mans the Lady has chosen you to bond and be united forever with one of Her specially blessed animals -- soul to soul...

Abandoned by her parents as an infant, Reisil grew up perpetually reminded that she...
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0590459546
One unicorn dwells on Earth.
Hundreds fight in Luster.
Their legends are recorded in
The Unicorn Chronicles.

Book II: Song of the Wanderer
Cara must return to Earth to save her grandmother, the Wanderer. But to do so, Cara must first travel through the wilderness of Luster,...
Raymond E. Feist's Magician Master
AuthorBryan J.L. Glass
ISBN0785139877
Collects Magician Master #1-5.
A comic adaptation of the original book by Raymond E. Feist.

It has been three years since the siege of Crydee. The three boys who once were the closest of friends are now worlds apart: Pug, a slave of the Tsurani, on the verge of becoming a full-blown magician;...
AuthorLorna Freeman
ISBN0451459806
An absolute gem of a fantasy novel. Criminally overlooked and underrated.

Also, some rather groovy cover art.

I sometimes wish I could shake some sense into people. While everybody busies themselves with high profile, well promoted and, let’s be honest, sometimes inferior books...
AuthorJoanne Bertin
ISBN0812545419
Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms.

When the Queen of Cassori dies mysteriously, Linden and the other Dragonlords are called...
The Moon of Gomrath
AuthorAlan Garner
ISBN0152017968
The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powerful. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would have never obeyed the strange compulsion that drove them to light a fire on the Beacon. But now it is too late--the horsemen called the Wild Hunt are awake and on the...
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