The Tricksters

Author	Peter S. Beagle
ISBN	0451457633

Arriving in the English countryside to live with her mother and new stepfather, Jenny has no interest in her surroundings, until she meets Tamsin. Since her death over 300 years ago, Tamsin has haunted the lonely estate without rest, trapped by a hidden trauma she can't remember, and a powerful evil...

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0060298898

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...

Author	Judith Tarr
ISBN	0812520785

In 336 B.C., Egypt lay under the yoke of Persia, ruled by Governors appointed by the King of Kings in Persis. And in the Temple of Amon in Thebes dwelt the only living child of Nectanebo, the last fully Egyptian Pharaoh, who had been defeated in battle and slain by Darius's servants

But from the...

Author	Ruth Nichols
ISBN	0152945148

Trying to stay one book recommendation ahead of my daughter's voracious reading habit, I somehow clicked my way to Ruth Nichols. This short novel borrows heavily from LOTR and the Pevensie's magic wardrobe, but I kept reminding myself that it was written for a child somewhere between 10 and 13,...

Author	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
ISBN	0380777606

In summer, magic is warmly borne on the gentle, wafting breeze.

It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering...and some best left in shadow, unexplored. Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is discovering many things he doesn't want to know:...

Author	Robert Westall
ISBN	0330292390

This is one of those few childhood favourites that I don't seem to share with many people - but what's not to like about a historical fantasy with telepathic cats set in southern France?

Englishman Cam of Cambridge is on the move again after his clever thinking gets him accused of witchcraft....

Author	Sherryl Jordan
ISBN	0590447297

Juniper is beautiful, brilliant, bubbling with vitality, buoyant with theories about life and immensely popular at school. She's also manipulative.

Dylan is creative, artistic, withdrawn, nerdish and desperately lonely.

Their home lives couldn't be more different.

Juniper's...

Author	Joan Aiken
ISBN	0152060588

After visiting his family in England, Felix is on his way back to Spain when he's shipwrecked off the coast of France. He is taken in by monks to recover from his ordeal--but it soon becomes clear to him that he is actually being held prisoner. Felix encounters an injured boy, Juan, on the grounds of...

Author	Tessa Duder
ISBN	0553290207

'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...

Author	Greer Gilman
ISBN	0451450949

Ariane came to visit Sylvie at midwinter, hoping to rekindle the old magic of their girlhood game: the Nine Worlds, a fantastical universe founded in a handful of marbles and a tarot of cards, whose myths and kingdoms the two friends had chronicled between them. But when Sylvie disappeared in a moonlit...

Author	Maurice Gee
ISBN	0195581121

A hundred turns have passed since Susan Ferris joined the Halves and ended the rule of the Halfmen of O, Otis Claw and Otis Cling. But Humankind has chosen evil a second time. O is now in the hands of the priests of Ferris who use Susan's name to terrorize the world.
A prophecy among the Stonefolk, dreams...

Author	Kathe Koja
ISBN	0142406937

Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hours with a cappuccino and her sketchbook, in which she creates a paper world she calls...

Author

Rebecca Barnhouse

Sixteen-year-old Hild has always been a favorite of her uncle, king of the Shylfings. So when she protects her cousin the crown prince from a murderous traitor, she expects the king to be grateful. Instead, she is unjustly accused of treachery herself.

As punishment, her uncle sends Hild far...

Author	Patrick O'Leary
ISBN	0312864035

A story within a story, The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The Usher of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically twisted by his own ambition and by Tomen, a malevolent creature...

Author	Patricia C. Wrede
ISBN	1626815550

Two stalwarts of science fiction combine to pen a dazzling set of stories wild and whimsical, thrilling and powerful.

Liavek is a hot, busy trade city, situated on the southern shore of the Sea of Luck at the mouth of the Cat River. In Liavek, magic is based on one’s “birth luck” and the length...

Author	Sean Stewart
ISBN	0441005543

Sean Stewart is one of those writers I used to buy sight unseen (before he unfortunately dropped out of writing novels and decided to devote his time to writing interactive online games). His books tend to be very character driven, something I personally like, and he has an individual writing style that...

Author	C.J. Cherryh
ISBN	0879979577

Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go. The problem was that outsiders—tourists and traders—claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious characters in blue robes and with members...

Author	Paula Volsky
ISBN	0553580124

Paula Volsky, author of The White Tribunal, returns with a spectacular saga of adventure and intrigue, romance and rebellion -- beginning with a wondrous discovery that could forever alter the fate of the free world....

In the modern, civilized republic of Vonahr, the need for magic seems...

Author

Maria Gripe

Berta blev hastigt tvungen att lämna Rosengåva, hemligheterna där blev för många och för svåra för henne att bära, men Axel har lovat att när tiden är mogen ska han kalla på henne igen. Nu går Berta hemma, väntar, längtar och saknar. Hon vet att hon måste få komma tillbaka till slottet,...