 | Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.27 Absolutely perfect. And a plot so convoluted I always forget quite how it all works out in the end.
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 | Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Buy used from: £0.01 high concept, thrilling, dark, grim and fantastically imaginative. Sequels also v good.
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 | Over Sea, Under Stone (Puffin Books) by Susan Cooper
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £0.01 Summery, cornwally children's adventure, and the start of a great series
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 | Charmed Life (The Chrestomanci Series) by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £0.01 small but perfectly formed. Sweet and scary. Funny and tragic.
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 | Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
Buy used from: £0.01 Sounds twee. Actually impressively grim. Sequels also good.
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 | Poison by Chris Wooding
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliantly gothic, and then suddenly bizarrely post modern. Intriguing.
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 | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 fun and imaginative.
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 | The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of A Fortune (Puffin Classics) by E. Nesbit
Buy new: £3.91 / Used from: £0.01 just cuz it's Edwardian, don't imagine its about posh kids. Great fun.
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 | Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Buy used from: £0.01 My childhood heroine. Brilliant.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £0.01 Sinster Oxford dons, entirely evil parents, daemons, armoured bears.. what's not to love?
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 | The Earthsea Quartet: "A Wizard Of Earthsea"; "The Tombs of Atuan"; "The Farthest Shore"; "Tehanu" (Puffin Books) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 Tombs of Atuan is possibly my favourite. Grim and dark and doomy
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