Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Title: Howl's Moving Castle
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Blurb: In the land of Ingary, where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined to make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which hovers on the nearby hills.

But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl who appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the hearts of young girls...

The first book in the Howl Series.

Adapted to a motion picture, by Studio Ghibli, and voiced by Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal and Emily Mortimer.


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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Title: Northern Lights
Author: Philip Pullman
Blurb: When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she her her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.

Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights...

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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Title: Peter Pan
Author: J.M. Barrie
Blurb: Do you believe in fairies? One night Peter Pan flies into the home of the Darling children, and so begins a magical adventure with Peter, the fairy Tinkerbell, the lovely Wendy, and the evil Captain Hook.

Adapted into various motion pictures.

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Return to Labyrinth by Jake T Forbes

Title: Return to Labyrinth
Author: Jake T. Forbes
Artwork: Chris Lie
Blurb: The Goblin King has kept a watchful eye on Toby: his minions secretly guiding and protecting the child...

Legions of Goblins work behind the scenes to ensure that Toby has whatever his heart desires...

Preparing him for the day when he will return to the Labyrinth and take his rightful place beside Jareth as the heir to the Goblin Kingdom.

That day has come...

...But no one has told Toby.

An original story set in the world of the hit movie!

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Blurb: My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven - which looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets, counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

Watching from her place in heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself.

But life is not quite finished with Susie yet....

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