Diana Wynne Jones
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
Author
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Series
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
9) Witch week
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.
11) Witch's business
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank and Jess's scheme to earn money by hiring themselves out as revenge seekers seems like a good one until they discover they are in competition with a witch.
12) Deep secret
Author
Language
English
Description
Rupert Venables is a Magid.
It's a Magid's job to oversee what goes on in the vast Multiverse. Actually, Rupert is really only a junior Magid. But he's got a king-sized problem. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement. But there are hundreds of candidates. How is he supposed to choose? And interviewing each one could take forever.
Unless...
What if he could round them all...
13) Charmed life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1977.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.
14) Conrad's fate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
Author
Series
Chrestomanci novel volume 3
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend the city of Caprona against a mysterious enchanter -- but only if Tonino can learn to cooperate with a girl from the hated Petrocchi family of spell-makers.
16) Fire and hemlock
Author
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
At nineteen, Polly has two sets of sometimes overlapping, sometimes conflicting memories, the real-life ones of school days and her parents' divorce, and the heroic adventure ones that began the day she accidentally gate-crashed a funeral and met the cellist Thomas Lynn.
19) Dogsbody
Author
Language
English
Description
Sirius the dog star, is reborn on earth as a puppy with a mission to search for the lost Zoi, the murder weapon of the stars.
20) Mixed magics
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Four separate incidents test the power of the Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter with nine lives, to control misuses of magic on various worlds.
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