FREE/BARGAIN - Children's, YA - 2014 - Page 5

ATDrake · 11-13-2014, 02:13 PM

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Nov 13th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not be matched in other regions, etc.):

Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in her excellent The Books of the Named kids/YA fantasy series set amidst a clan of pre-historic cheetah-like big cats, this installment involving the discovery of fire, originally out from Atheneum in 1983. I really enjoyed this series from the school library as a kid (apparently at some point they also did an animated adaptation, according to the book's own Wikipedia entry) and I'll be snapping this one up if it turns out I didn't already get it from Fictionwise back in the day (and possibly even if I did, to encourage them to put more on sale at such a low price and get more of Bell's books back into e-print).

Twenty-five million years in the past, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats called “the Named” have their own language, traditions, and law. Led by Meoran, the Named herd horses and deer for food. They keep order and peace, fending off predatory raiders--the UnNamed--from all sides. But, the battle has taken its toll, and the Named are skirting the edge of survival.

Much to the displeasure of Meoran, a young female named Ratha discovers a powerful defense against the UnNamed. She calls it “the Red Tongue,” and it is a creature of incredible power. Red Tongue is fire, a force of both life and destruction that must be at once nurtured and tamed.

Sensing that Ratha’s mastery of fire threatens his power, Meoran banishes her from the clan. As she travels out amongst the savage UnNamed, Ratha learns about both them and herself. But, her tribe needs her. Can she return? Will the Named survive constant attacks without the Red Tongue? Will the power of the Red Tongue change the clan forever?

Author Clare Bell crafts a serious adventure and coming-of-age story, filled with triumph and heartbreak. RATHA’S CREATURE, the first book of the Named series, will have readers hooked and clamoring for more stories of these big, noble cats.

ATDrake · 11-21-2014, 06:02 AM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

The Fear Man by "Ann Halam", YA pseudonym of multiple award-winning British sf/fantasy author Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), #3 in her Ghosts and Other Hauntings series of kids/YA sf/fantasy/supernatural adventure/suspense thrillers, originally out from Orion in 1995.

A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why is his mother so afraid of the place? And what is the unknown presence, not human, not a ghost that seems to be stalking the family: Andrei and his mother, his little sister (who believes she can do magic) and their baby brother? Andrei's mother has been constantly on the run from the father he's never met, for as long as he can remember: but now the nightmare is closing in, and it's time to turn and face the monster. Whatever that may cost.

Crying in the Dark, #5 in the series, originally out from Orion in 1998.

Bullied and abused by her adoptive family, a holiday on the edge of Dartmoor, in the depths of the country, is just another ordeal for Elinor. But then her aunt forces her to sleep in the dark little room with the four-poster bed, a musty prison of curtains where strange dreams await . . . Elinor retreats into the past; into the tragic life of another Elinor, poor Nell the nurserymaid; and into a three-hundred year old story, at first fascinating, then terrifying. She's trapped in a nightmare, and the price of escape is to terrible to contemplate . . .

Calenorn · 11-21-2014, 08:25 AM

It seems that the folks at Wildside Press have obtained the rights to the Danny Dunn stories! These have been out of print for far too long!

The first two titles, "Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint" and "Danny Dunn on a Desert Island," are currently available. $3.99 each, and DRM free, I believe. Looks to be the original cover art, too!

http://www.wildsidepress.com/search....dunn&submit=Go

A sampler with the first few pages of each book is available for free (perhaps only for a limited time):

http://www.wildsidepress.com/freebie.htm

Now if someone could only locate Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators, I'd be all set.

dandelioncottage · 11-21-2014, 09:12 AM

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace is on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon.

The first four books in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series are ready to delight a new generation of readers—and to bring a grownup generation of readers back to the engrossing stories of their youth. Following the childhoods of Betsy Ray and her friends in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this handsome anthology collects the original Betsy-Tacy as well as Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Forewords by Judy Blume, Esther Hautzig, and Johanna Hurwitz, and illustrations by Lois Lenski, will make readers of all ages feel at home in the imaginative life of young Betsy Ray as she awakens to the challenges and triumphs of her home in quaint Mankato, Minnesota.

peachiekene · 11-21-2014, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dandelioncottage

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace is on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon.

AmazonUS

Also available at:
Kobo
Google
B&N

crich70 · 11-22-2014, 07:12 AM

Lord of the Flies
Kobo

Amazon US Over at Kobo you can find it for .97 but at Amazon for some reason it's $5.70. Of course the Kobo version is Kepub and not straight epub or acsm accessible.

Difflugia · 11-22-2014, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crich70

Lord of the Flies
Kobo

Amazon US Over at Kobo you can find it for .97 but at Amazon for some reason it's $5.70. Of course the Kobo version is Kepub and not straight epub or acsm accessible.

I suspect that the one at Kobo isn't supposed to be available in the US. The publisher is listed as "General Press India", while the editions at other US stores are published by Penguin.

crich70 · 11-22-2014, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Difflugia

I suspect that the one at Kobo isn't supposed to be available in the US. The publisher is listed as "General Press India", while the editions at other US stores are published by Penguin.

Maybe. Glitch or not I was able to buy it and have it on my Kindle at present. I remember reading it for English class back in high school (many moons ago).

Edit: They do have two other editions there one of which is $9.99 and the other $12.99 (the $12.99 edition has an introduction by Stephen King). Why they have three versions of the same book I don't know but I will always choose the one with the cheapest sale price.

ATDrake · 11-26-2014, 12:58 PM

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Stonekeeper's Daughter by Linda McNabb (ISFDB), a YA fantasy originally out from HarperCollins New Zealand in 2004.

Nakita, the Stonekeeper’s daughter, lives in a remote village high on Eagle Rock. Her father guards four sacred stones and conducts mysterious experiments for his master.

Cut off from the outside world, Nakita longs to see what lies below the mountain.

She hears the whispering voices in the stones but when she gives in to her curiosity and picks up one of them her life changes forever.

Then her village is discovered by two strangers she is forced to flee into the valley below where she discovers the world is much stranger than she ever imagined.

peachiekene · 11-26-2014, 04:22 PM

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ATDrake · 12-04-2014, 05:24 PM

Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Dec 4th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price good in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not be on sale in other regions, etc.):

The Paper Bag Princess by Order of Canada recipient Robert Munsch (Wikipedia). This is a major Canadian children's classic picture book (Wikipedia entry), possibly only beaten out by Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater (Wikipedia), and now e-printed by ORM's Annick Press imprint.

Apparently, this has specific device requirements for certain versions, so I'll provide the links to all the major vendors: Kobo, iTunes, Amazon (fixed-format layout), B&N, Google Play (scanned pages).

The B&N and Kobo & iTunes versions contains read-along audio narrated by the author (or so the blurb says). But it needs a tablet or Android/iDevice and will not work on your regular nook/Kobo (or computer via the desktop reader, unless you have Windows 8 for Kobo or a sufficiently advanced Mac for the iBooks version.

In this bestselling modern classic, Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald—who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance.

This ebook features read-along narration by the author as well as music and sound effects. <-- (B&N, Kobo, and iTunes versions only for this last bit)

ATDrake · 12-06-2014, 11:59 AM

Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Just Like Annabel by Alan Davidson, another in his kids/tween series of humorous schoolgirl adventure novels with quoted blurb praise from The Guardian and BBC Radio, this installment originally out from Penguin's Viking Children's Books in 1988.

'Good afternoon,' said Annabel, in her most sensible voice. 'I need the number on behalf of Mr Eastbourne,,,,It's very important.'

Whether trying to help a troublesome donkey called Eastbourne..or attempting to solve the enigma of posh class-mate Sheena Franks-Walters...or simply deciding [inexplicably] to adopt "a new attitude" to life, thirteen-year-old Annabel is in vintage form again.

peachiekene · 12-07-2014, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sakura-panda

Does anyone know if the ebook stories are illustrated? I'm trying to decided if I want to get them for her e-ink Kindle or have her dad get them for her Kindle Fire. Or I could get the epub and put it on her tablet through the app. So many choices! LOL

Sorry for such a delay. I haven't read them myself, but looking at the first ebook version, it doesn't look like they are illustrated outside of the chapter announcements. Basically a standard ebook. Then again, if they offer two different versions (tablet or eink) you could just pick whichever you think she would prefer.

My daughter loves this series (at least the first two) so she's getting the third and the short story collection for Christmas (Debating on getting her the first in paper - she's made it very well known that she prefers the hardcovers over eink.)

ATDrake · 12-08-2014, 03:09 PM

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Zombies Don't Carve: A YA Christmas Story by Rusty Fischer (ISFDB), a festive short in their Living Dead Love Stories series, whose 1st novel we received as an official publisher promo freebie several years ago.

Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner? ZOMBIES!!!!

April Kersey has finally decided to introduce her new boyfriend, Echo, to her family. On Christmas Eve. At the big family dinner table, with everyone dressed in their finest ugly Christmas sweater. As if that wasn’t bad enough, did I mention… he’s a zombie?

Echo’s status as one of the living dead doesn’t sit too well with April’s Dad. That is, until an all-out zombie infestation begins making its way toward the Kersey’s holiday celebration. When Echo rises to defend his adopted family from the zombie horde, the Kerseys join in to make it a holiday they’ll never forget.

That is, if they survive…

ATDrake · 12-11-2014, 01:12 AM

Bargain @ $1.99 for Canadians only from HarperCollins (linkage goes to Kobo, this was matched at Google & iTunes Canada when I checked, £14.39 in the UK, and the US has a different edition which is $25):

The Land of Ingary Trilogy by the late Diana Wynne Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a 3-book omnibus edition of Howl's Moving Castle, which the Hayao Miyazaki anime movie was based upon, and its sequels. These are some of my very favourites and I own them in two languages in paper editions, so naturally I pounced on this.

Given HC's short-lived deep discounts for stuff in Canada, I suspect this may be the Kobo Daily Deal which they haven't put up on the frontpage yet, and may last only for the next day.

Discover the the land of Ingary, where magic and adventure awaits… Howl’s Moving Castle is the first book in this spellbinding trilogy from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones.

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls… There she meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the Fire Demon, with whom she agrees a pact. But Sophie isn’t the only one under a curse – her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl, and Michael, and her quest to break her curse is both gripping – and howlingly funny!

CASTLE IN THE AIR: Abdullah’s day-dreams suddenly start to come true when he meets the exquisite Flower-in-the-Night, daughter of the ferocious Sultan of Zanzib. Fate has destined them for each other, but a bad-tempered genie, a hideous djinn, and various villainous bandits have their own ideas. When Flower-in-the-Night is carried off, Abdullah is determined to rescue her – if he can find her.

HOUSE OF MANY WAYS: Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to many places – including the past and a cave under the mountains. By opening that door, Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard and a box of the king's most treasured documents, as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures. Caught up in an intense royal search, she encounters an intimidating sorceress named Sophie. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?

11-21-2014, 08:25 AM	#63
Calenorn Brash Fumbler Posts: 1,203 Karma: 9224939 Join Date: May 2013 Device: NST, Kobo Mini	Danny Dunn! It seems that the folks at Wildside Press have obtained the rights to the Danny Dunn stories! These have been out of print for far too long! The first two titles, "Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint" and "Danny Dunn on a Desert Island," are currently available. $3.99 each, and DRM free, I believe. Looks to be the original cover art, too! http://www.wildsidepress.com/search....dunn&submit=Go A sampler with the first few pages of each book is available for free (perhaps only for a limited time): http://www.wildsidepress.com/freebie.htm Now if someone could only locate Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators, I'd be all set.

11-21-2014, 09:12 AM	#64
dandelioncottage Abibliophobe Posts: 425 Karma: 4379916 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: iPad Mini 2 64 gb, Nook Glowlight, iPad 4 (128 gb)	The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace is on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon. The first four books in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series are ready to delight a new generation of readers—and to bring a grownup generation of readers back to the engrossing stories of their youth. Following the childhoods of Betsy Ray and her friends in the late 1800s and early 1900s, this handsome anthology collects the original Betsy-Tacy as well as Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Forewords by Judy Blume, Esther Hautzig, and Johanna Hurwitz, and illustrations by Lois Lenski, will make readers of all ages feel at home in the imaginative life of young Betsy Ray as she awakens to the challenges and triumphs of her home in quaint Mankato, Minnesota. Last edited by dandelioncottage; 11-21-2014 at 09:59 AM.

11-26-2014, 04:22 PM	#70
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11-13-2014, 02:13 PM	#61
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Nov 13th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not be matched in other regions, etc.): Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in her excellent The Books of the Named kids/YA fantasy series set amidst a clan of pre-historic cheetah-like big cats, this installment involving the discovery of fire, originally out from Atheneum in 1983. I really enjoyed this series from the school library as a kid (apparently at some point they also did an animated adaptation, according to the book's own Wikipedia entry) and I'll be snapping this one up if it turns out I didn't already get it from Fictionwise back in the day (and possibly even if I did, to encourage them to put more on sale at such a low price and get more of Bell's books back into e-print). Twenty-five million years in the past, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats called “the Named” have their own language, traditions, and law. Led by Meoran, the Named herd horses and deer for food. They keep order and peace, fending off predatory raiders--the UnNamed--from all sides. But, the battle has taken its toll, and the Named are skirting the edge of survival. Much to the displeasure of Meoran, a young female named Ratha discovers a powerful defense against the UnNamed. She calls it “the Red Tongue,” and it is a creature of incredible power. Red Tongue is fire, a force of both life and destruction that must be at once nurtured and tamed. Sensing that Ratha’s mastery of fire threatens his power, Meoran banishes her from the clan. As she travels out amongst the savage UnNamed, Ratha learns about both them and herself. But, her tribe needs her. Can she return? Will the Named survive constant attacks without the Red Tongue? Will the power of the Red Tongue change the clan forever? Author Clare Bell crafts a serious adventure and coming-of-age story, filled with triumph and heartbreak. RATHA’S CREATURE, the first book of the Named series, will have readers hooked and clamoring for more stories of these big, noble cats.

11-21-2014, 06:02 AM	#62
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot) The Fear Man by "Ann Halam", YA pseudonym of multiple award-winning British sf/fantasy author Gwyneth Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), #3 in her Ghosts and Other Hauntings series of kids/YA sf/fantasy/supernatural adventure/suspense thrillers, originally out from Orion in 1995. A dreadful secret hangs over the deserted house on Roman Road. What is it that keeps drawing Andrei to it? Why is his mother so afraid of the place? And what is the unknown presence, not human, not a ghost that seems to be stalking the family: Andrei and his mother, his little sister (who believes she can do magic) and their baby brother? Andrei's mother has been constantly on the run from the father he's never met, for as long as he can remember: but now the nightmare is closing in, and it's time to turn and face the monster. Whatever that may cost. Crying in the Dark, #5 in the series, originally out from Orion in 1998. Bullied and abused by her adoptive family, a holiday on the edge of Dartmoor, in the depths of the country, is just another ordeal for Elinor. But then her aunt forces her to sleep in the dark little room with the four-poster bed, a musty prison of curtains where strange dreams await . . . Elinor retreats into the past; into the tragic life of another Elinor, poor Nell the nurserymaid; and into a three-hundred year old story, at first fascinating, then terrifying. She's trapped in a nightmare, and the price of escape is to terrible to contemplate . . .

11-22-2014, 07:12 AM	#66
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	Lord of the Flies Kobo Amazon US Over at Kobo you can find it for .97 but at Amazon for some reason it's $5.70. Of course the Kobo version is Kepub and not straight epub or acsm accessible.

11-26-2014, 12:58 PM	#69
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Stonekeeper's Daughter by Linda McNabb (ISFDB), a YA fantasy originally out from HarperCollins New Zealand in 2004. Nakita, the Stonekeeper’s daughter, lives in a remote village high on Eagle Rock. Her father guards four sacred stones and conducts mysterious experiments for his master. Cut off from the outside world, Nakita longs to see what lies below the mountain. She hears the whispering voices in the stones but when she gives in to her curiosity and picks up one of them her life changes forever. Then her village is discovered by two strangers she is forced to flee into the valley below where she discovers the world is much stranger than she ever imagined.

12-04-2014, 05:24 PM	#71
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Dec 4th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price good in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not be on sale in other regions, etc.): The Paper Bag Princess by Order of Canada recipient Robert Munsch (Wikipedia). This is a major Canadian children's classic picture book (Wikipedia entry), possibly only beaten out by Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater (Wikipedia), and now e-printed by ORM's Annick Press imprint. Apparently, this has specific device requirements for certain versions, so I'll provide the links to all the major vendors: Kobo, iTunes, Amazon (fixed-format layout), B&N, Google Play (scanned pages). The B&N and Kobo & iTunes versions contains read-along audio narrated by the author (or so the blurb says). But it needs a tablet or Android/iDevice and will not work on your regular nook/Kobo (or computer via the desktop reader, unless you have Windows 8 for Kobo or a sufficiently advanced Mac for the iBooks version. In this bestselling modern classic, Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald—who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance. This ebook features read-along narration by the author as well as music and sound effects. <-- (B&N, Kobo, and iTunes versions only for this last bit)

12-06-2014, 11:59 AM	#72
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon: Just Like Annabel by Alan Davidson, another in his kids/tween series of humorous schoolgirl adventure novels with quoted blurb praise from The Guardian and BBC Radio, this installment originally out from Penguin's Viking Children's Books in 1988. 'Good afternoon,' said Annabel, in her most sensible voice. 'I need the number on behalf of Mr Eastbourne,,,,It's very important.' Whether trying to help a troublesome donkey called Eastbourne..or attempting to solve the enigma of posh class-mate Sheena Franks-Walters...or simply deciding [inexplicably] to adopt "a new attitude" to life, thirteen-year-old Annabel is in vintage form again.

12-08-2014, 03:09 PM	#74
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Zombies Don't Carve: A YA Christmas Story by Rusty Fischer (ISFDB), a festive short in their Living Dead Love Stories series, whose 1st novel we received as an official publisher promo freebie several years ago. Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner? ZOMBIES!!!! April Kersey has finally decided to introduce her new boyfriend, Echo, to her family. On Christmas Eve. At the big family dinner table, with everyone dressed in their finest ugly Christmas sweater. As if that wasn’t bad enough, did I mention… he’s a zombie? Echo’s status as one of the living dead doesn’t sit too well with April’s Dad. That is, until an all-out zombie infestation begins making its way toward the Kersey’s holiday celebration. When Echo rises to defend his adopted family from the zombie horde, the Kerseys join in to make it a holiday they’ll never forget. That is, if they survive…

12-11-2014, 01:12 AM	#75
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $1.99 for Canadians only from HarperCollins (linkage goes to Kobo, this was matched at Google & iTunes Canada when I checked, £14.39 in the UK, and the US has a different edition which is $25): The Land of Ingary Trilogy by the late Diana Wynne Jones (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a 3-book omnibus edition of Howl's Moving Castle, which the Hayao Miyazaki anime movie was based upon, and its sequels. These are some of my very favourites and I own them in two languages in paper editions, so naturally I pounced on this. Given HC's short-lived deep discounts for stuff in Canada, I suspect this may be the Kobo Daily Deal which they haven't put up on the frontpage yet, and may last only for the next day. Discover the the land of Ingary, where magic and adventure awaits… Howl’s Moving Castle is the first book in this spellbinding trilogy from ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones. HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls… There she meets Michael, Howl’s apprentice, and Calcifer the Fire Demon, with whom she agrees a pact. But Sophie isn’t the only one under a curse – her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl, and Michael, and her quest to break her curse is both gripping – and howlingly funny! CASTLE IN THE AIR: Abdullah’s day-dreams suddenly start to come true when he meets the exquisite Flower-in-the-Night, daughter of the ferocious Sultan of Zanzib. Fate has destined them for each other, but a bad-tempered genie, a hideous djinn, and various villainous bandits have their own ideas. When Flower-in-the-Night is carried off, Abdullah is determined to rescue her – if he can find her. HOUSE OF MANY WAYS: Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to many places – including the past and a cave under the mountains. By opening that door, Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog, a muddled young apprentice wizard and a box of the king's most treasured documents, as well as irritating a clan of small blue creatures. Caught up in an intense royal search, she encounters an intimidating sorceress named Sophie. And where Sophie is, can the Wizard Howl and fire demon Calcifer be far behind?

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