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Old 09-03-2020, 08:01 PM   #129
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One reason I specifically asked how she handled dated books is that there are charming books about magic written in the 1950s by Edward Eager, and the first of them, Half Magic, is set in the 1920s. They are light reading both in terms of difficulty and content; no dark magic. Kids still like them and they’re available as ebooks.
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I'd recommend the children's fantasies of Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Black and Blue Magic and Below the Root are the two that I remember. They're available as ebooks. My library even has some of them as ebooks.

Greg
Thanks guys. I'll check them. They do sound interesting.

I was also thinking of Diana Wynn Jones' Howl's Moving Castle.
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