The Giant Print Library

Fantasy Stories for younger readers Updated: November 2012

Any UK member of our library service may borrow up to a maximum of 6 books per service for a 3 month loan period.

Most of the books have been produced by the National Blind Children's Society and are in 24 point type with identical covers to the ordinary print versions of the books.

Please be aware that due to their size, many of the books are split into two or

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more volumes, and these will have the same covers.

For details on borrowing any of the titles listed or for further information regarding the Giant Print collection please contact Liz Farrell or Hazel Sharrock, Children's Librarians at RNIB National Library Service on 0161 429 1975.

Fantasy Stories

Babbitt, Natalie.Tuck everlasting. 2003. Suggested reading age 11+. 1v.The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing older.

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Banks, Lynne Reid.The Indian in the cupboard. 1988. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Book 1 of the Indian in the cupboard series. (Other books in this series are also available.) When Omri is given a toy Indian and a small cupboard for his birthday, he has no idea that when he puts the Indian in the cupboard it will come alive…

Barrowman, JohnHollow earth. 2012. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Twins Matt and Emily Calder have imaginations so powerful that they can make art come to life. Their powers are sought by villains intent on accessing the terrors of Hollow Earth - a place where all devils, demons and monsters lie trapped for eternity. If

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Hollow Earth is breached, the world will be plunged into chaos.

Blackman, Malorie.Thief! 1995. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.Fleeing on to the moors when she is unfairly accused of theft, an extraordinary storm suddenly whirls twelve-year-old Lydia into the future, a computer-dominated future where her home town is now ruled by a cruel tyrant. As Lydia struggles to get back to her own time, she discovers she must face a terrible confrontation.

Blade, Adam.Ferno: the fire dragon. 2007. Suggested interest age 7+. 1v.Book 1 of the Beast quest series (other books in this series are also available). An evil wizard has enchanted the magical beasts of Avantia - only a true

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hero can free the beasts and stop them from destroying the land. Is Tom the hero Avantia has been waiting for?

Calcutt, David.The map of marvels. 2010. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.When Connor starts creating a map of an imaginary world he has no idea that eventually he will become part of that world. As he sets off on his journey through the map, he knows one thing - he must find the Tower of Truth. Only then will he find out whether the world in the map is real, or whether it is just a story.

Canavan, TrudiThe magician's guild. 2004. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.Book 1 of The black magician trilogy. Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city

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streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. There is an untrained magician loose on the streets. She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home.

Carroll, LewisAlice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking glass 1865-1871. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.The first story about Alice's adventures when she follows a rabbit in a hurry down a rabbit hole. The second story follows Alice into the Looking-glass kingdom where order is turned upside down.

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Cast, P. C.Marked. 2009. Suggested interest age 15+. 2v.Book 1 in the House of Night series (some other books in this series are also available). When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. But Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the Goddess Nyx and discovers her amazing new power to conjure the elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit. When Zoey discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look within herself to embrace her destiny.

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Clare, Cassandra.Clockwork angel. 2011. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.Book 1 of the Infernal Devices series (Book 2, Clockwork Prince, is also available). London,1878. 16-year-old Tessa Gray's priority should be finding her brother, not falling in love with two boys. She is soon caught in a dangerous love triangle where a wrong decision could prove atal. Tessa will need all her strength to save her brother and stay alive as she learns about what really lurks on London's streets after dark.

Colfer, Eoin.Artemis Fowl. 2002. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Artemis Fowl series (Other books in this series are also available).Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious

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criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit).

Cooper, Susan.Over sea, under stone. 1965. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Dark Is Rising series (the other books in this series are also available). A holiday in Cornwall and the discovery of an ancient map lead to a search for Arthurian treasure. But Simon, Jane and Barney realize that dark forces are against them.

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Corlett, William.The steps up the chimney. 2005. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of The Magician's House series. (Other books in this series are also available). William, Mary and Alice Constant have come to spend Christmas with their uncle as their parents are working abroad. Little by little, they discover that things in this remote old house are not quite what they seem. There are powerful forces at work, calling to the children from across the centuries; forces that pull them up the hidden steps in the chimney to the secret room where the magician lives.

Cresswell, Helen.Snatchers. 1998. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.When Ellie meets an angel called Plum in the park one day, little does

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she realize that he's there to protect her from the Land of Starless Night. And when the wolf-woman comes to call, little does Ellie realize how much in need of a guardian angel she really is.

Croggon, AlisonThe gift. 2004. Suggested reading age 13+. 4v.Book 1 of the Pellinor series (some other books in this series are also available). Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, a gift that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true heritage and extraordinary destiny unfolds.

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Dalton, Annie.Winging it. 2005. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Meet Melanie Beeby! Mel is a trainee time-travelling angel. She's feisty, witty, streetwise and dead!

Dickinson, Peter.The tears of the salamander. 2004. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.Mount Etna towers above the remote villa where Alfredo lives with his uncle after a fire wipes out his family. Deep within Etna swim the magical salamanders, and he must use his strange powers to protect them, destroy his uncle and control the explosive rage of the volcano.

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Erwin, J. D.Mission improbable. 2010. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Edwin Spencer has enough problems at school as it is, without strange voices calling him into another dimension! But when he is sucked into the peculiar kingdom of Hysteria on a secret mission he feels very at home. This could be his chance at last to be a hero, even if he does have Perpetua Allbright, school swot as his sidekick.

Farmer, Penelope.Charlotte sometimes. 1969. Suggested reading age 11+. 1v.It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. When she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the one that was there last night; she is a stranger who calls Charlotte "Claire", and says is her younger sister Emily. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years.

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Fine, Anne.A sudden puff of glittering smoke. 1989. Suggested reading age 7+.Book 1 of the Genie trilogy.(Other books in this series are also available.)The disgruntled genie who appears on her desk seems to be the answer to Jeanie's problems - whatever she wishes, he will command. But Jeanie quickly discovers that she and her genie have very different views of the world.

Fisher, Catherine.The Oracle. 2003. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.In the distant land of deserts and islands, the servants of the god rule the land. His wishes are conveyed through the Oracle. Mirany is the new Bearer, afraid of her perilous duties for

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the god in the rituals of the Oracle, and fearful of her secret questioning...

Funke, Cornelia.Inkheart. 2004. Suggested reading age 11+. 4v. Book 1 of the Inkheart trilogy (Other books in the trilogy are also available).Mo, a gentle bookbinder with an extraordinary secret, and his daughter Meggie love books, yet he has not read aloud to her since her mother disappeared years ago. After a mysterious stranger visits them, Mo tells Meggie they must go into hiding. But why? - and from whom?

Garner, Alan.Elidor. 1965. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.One gloomy day, Roland, Helen, Nicholas and David are lured into a ruined church, where they enter into

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the twilight world of Elidor. Then the evil forces find a path through to this world.

Garner, Alan.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. 1960. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Alderley series. (Book 2, The Moon of Gomrath, is also available.)When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, the wizard Cadellin takes them to safety deep in the caves of Fundindelve. Here he watches over the enchanted sleep of 140 knights, awaiting the fated hour when theymust rise and fight.

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Garner, Alan.The owl service. 1967. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.The curious pattern on the dinner service Alison finds in the loft bears a strange resemblance to an owl, interesting but unimportant. From that moment on begins a change of events that is as disturbing as it is inexplicable.

Gliori, DebiPure dead magic. 2002. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Book 1 of the Pure dead series. (Other books in this series are also available.)We meet young Titus Strega-Borgia, our 12-year-old hero, his 10-year-old sister Pandora and the divine baby Damp. Add to the mix the rats who live in the modem, the beasts in the basement, a seriously wicked baddie called Don Lucifer di S'Embowelli and

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a gangster in a rabbit suit and watch as the ensuing mayhem takes hold.

Gordon, RoderickTunnels. 2007. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.Book 1 of the Tunnels series. Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows has a passion for digging. When his father suddenly disappears down an unknown tunnel, Will decides to investigate with his friend Chester. Soon they find themselves deep underground, where they unearth a dark and terrifying secret - a secret which may cost them their lives.

Hale, Shannon.The book of a thousand days. 2008. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.When a beautiful princess refuses to marry the prince her father has

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chosen, her father is furious. So furious he locks her in a tower. She has seven long years of solitude to think about her insolence. But the princess is not entirely alone - she can take her maid, Dashti. Petulant and spoilt, the princess eats the food in their meagre store as if she were still at court, and Dashti soon realizes they must either escape or slowly starve.

Hardinge, Frances.Fly by night. 2006. Suggested reading age 9+. 3v.Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man, Eponymous Clent.

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Harris, JoanneRunemarks. 2007. Suggested reading age 11+. 3v.Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured runemark on her hand - a symbol of the old gods and definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But Maddy enjoys working magic, even if it is just to control some pesky goblins.

Hearne, LianAcross the nightingale floor. 2003. Suggested reading age 15+. 2v.Tales of the Otori book 1 (other books in this series are also available). In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, lida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard. Brought

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up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people, Takeo has learned only the ways of peace. Why, then, does he possess the deadly skills that make him so valuable to the sinister Tribe?

Higgins, F. E.The black book of secrets. 2007. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night. His name is Ludlow Fitch - and he is running from a most terrible past. Then out of the mist comes Joe Zabbidou - a mysterious pawnbroker who trades people's deepest, darkest secrets for cash.

Horowitz, Anthony. Day of the dragon. 1989. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Vietamese, abandoned by his parents, Will Tyler is adopted by an English

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couple and brought up in London. On the day he flies out to his adoptive father in Hong Kong he is nearly kidnapped. Once on the plane he thinks the nightmare is over. It has only just begun...

Horowitz, Anthony.Raven's gate. 2005. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 in the Power of Five series (some other books in this series are also available). When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian: with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him; no one can help him. There is no proof. There is no logic. There is just the gate.

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Hoving, IsabelThe dream merchant. 2006. Suggested reading age 13+. 5v.Josh Cope is just an average boy. So why is an international corporation so convinced that he is the key to conquering their new market: the past? Josh is drawn into a whirlwind adventure, to a place between dreams and reality.

Irwin, J.D.Mission Improbable. 2010. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Edwin Spencer has enough problems at school as it is, without strange voices calling him into another dimension! But when he is sucked into the peculiar kingdom of Hysteria on a secret mission he feels very at home. This could be his chance at last to be a

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hero, even if he does have Perpetua Allbright, school swot as his sidekick.

Jones, Diana Wynne.Archer's Goon. 2000. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. When the Goon turns up demanding "Archer's two thousand", life turns upside-down. Howard discovers that the town is run by seven crazy wizards and someone is trying to take over the world!

Jones, Diane WynneCharmed life. 1977. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v. Book 1 of the Chrestomanci series (Book 2, The magicians of Caprona, is also available). Everybody says that Gwendolyn Chant is a gifted witch so it suits her enormously when she is taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle.

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However, life with the great enchanter and his family is not what she expects and sparks soon begin to fly...

Jones, Diana Wynne.Howl's moving castle. 1986. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell.

Kate, LaurenFallen. 2010. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 in the Fallen series (other books in this series are also available). 17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword and Cross only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they

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have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart.

Keaney, Brian.The magical detectives. 2010. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.When Otto returns home from school one day to find his mother missing, and then discovers an advert for the Magical Detective Agency, he decides there's nothing for it but to call on their services. In fact, the agency is just one man, a strange character call Maximillan Hawksmoor, who becomes convinced that Otto's mother has been abducted by Elementals -- beings who live in a completely different world. It's not long before Otto, plus his friend Juliet and her cat Cornelius, join Max on a strange and dangerous journey to rescue Otto's mother -- in a world where anything is possible.

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King-Smith, DickDragon boy. 1994. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.A young boy is adopted by a pair of dragons on the outskirts of the forest of Sherwood. This story is set in Merrie England and in the days of knights and outlaws.

Landy, Derek.Skulduggery Pleasant. 2007. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

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Le Guin, Ursula.A wizard of Earthsea. 1968. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 of the Earthsea series (other books in this series are also available).Sparrowhawk, a young boy with un-common powers, goes to a school for Wizards, but pride drives him to try certain dangerous powers too soon and a terrible evil is let loose.

Lewis, C.S. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. 1950. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Book 1 of the Narnia series. (Other books in this series are also available.) Four children are sent to live in a rambling, old house, and in an empty, forgotten room they find an old wardrobe which leads them into the magical land of Narnia.

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Lisle, Rebecca.Amethyst. 2006. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Amy jumps at the chance to leave her gloomy aunt and uncle and go to the mountains. But once there, she finds that she must to go to stay with the alien clan, the Wood People, and betray them. Worse still, when she meets the Woods she likes them, and her traitorous position there makes her more and more uncomfortable. A mysterious stranger turns up at the house, and kidnaps their beloved wolf cub. Amy is soon engaged in the chase through the winter landscape to a final showdown.

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Lively, Penelope.The whispering knights. 1995. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.The children concoct a witch's brew and are surprised and delighted by the results.

McNish, Cliff. The doomspell. 2001. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Doomspell trilogy (the other titles in the trilogy are also available). Rachel and her younger brother are ripped through the wall and hurtled on to another world. Like thousands of children before them, they have been snatched by the Witch. But this time the Witch has met her match. Rachel discovers that she has extraordinary gifts. She is the only hope for the Witch's victims.

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Madley, ThomMarco's pendulum. 2006. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.When Marco is staying in Glastonbury for the summer, he soon starts to recognise the magic of the place - the magic that a development company is planning to exploit. Marco is quickly drawn into the dangerous struggle to protect the ancient mysticism of Glastonbury.

Mead, Richelle.Vampire academy. 2009. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 of the Vampire Academy series (some other books in the series are also available). St Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school - hidden away, it's a place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a

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bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St Vladimir's where the girls must survive a world of forbidden romances, a ruthless social scene and terrifying night time rituals. But most of all, staying alive.

Meyer, StephenieTwilight. 2005. Suggested reading age 15+. 3v.Book 1 of the Twilight Saga (Other books in the series are also available). The Cullen family obviously prefers their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him. He seems determined to push her away, until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car.

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Morpurgo, Michael.Arthur, High King of Britain. 1997. Suggested reading age 11+. 1-2v.A composite version of all the legends of King Arthur, retold from King Arthur's own point of view.

Morpurgo, Michael.The sleeping sword. 2002. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle stumbles one day into an underground tomb containing a shield and a beautiful ancient sword. As he touches the hilt. his whole body is gripped by an incredible, centuries old power. It is a power that will change Bun's life forever.

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Mould, Chris.Pip and the wood witch curse. 2011. Suggested reading age 7+. 1v.The great walled city of Hangman's Hollow is at war with the forest outside. Into this war, one dreadful winter's night, fate delivers a skinny, helpless boy. But maybe Pip isn't as helpless as he seems. Maybe he is the one who will defeat the wood witches and rescue the children of Hangman's Hollow ...

Nelson, D. A.DarkIsle. 2008. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.For 10-year-old Morag, there's nothing magical about the cellar of her cruel foster parents' home. But that's where she meets Aldiss, a talking rat, and his resourceful companion, Bertie the dodo. She jumps at the chance to run

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away and join them on their race against time to save their homeland from the evil warlock Devlish, who is intent on destroying it. But first, Bertie and Aldiss will need to stop bickering long enough to free the only guide who knows where to find Devlish: Shona, a dragon who's been turned to stone. Together, these four friends begin their journey to a mysterious dark island beyond the horizon, where danger and glory await - along with clues to the disappearance of Morag's parents, whose destiny seems somehow linked to her own.

Ness, PatrickThe knife of never letting go. 2009. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.Book 1 of the Chaos Walking series (other books in the series are also available). Imagine you're the only boy

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in a town of men and you can hear everything they think - and they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man but his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.

Nicholson, William.The wind singer. 2000. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v. Book 1 of the Wind on Fire series.In the walled city state of Aramanth, exams are everything. When Kestrel Hath dares to rebel, the Chief Examiner humiliates her father and sentences the whole family to the harshest punishment. Desperate to save them, Kestrel learns the secret of the wind singer.

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Nimmo, Jenny.The snow spider. 1986. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Book 1 of the Snow Spider series. (Other books in this series are also available.) On his birthday Gwyn is given some strange gifts by his grandmother. They lead him to the snow spider and a series of encounters with strange other worlds of snow and silver, finally revealing the fate of his lost elder sister.

Nimmo, Jenny.Midnight for Charlie Bone. 2002. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v. Book 1 of the Children of the Red King series. (Other books in this series are also available.) When he is 10 years old, Charlie discovers that he is able to look at photographs and hear conversations and thoughts that were taking place at the time the photo was

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taken. Charlie hears one conversation that sets him on a search for a girl who has been missing for years…

Nimmo, Jenny.Ultramarine. 1992. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.Ned and Nell cannot understand their dreams of the sea, and when three strangers come to the house their terrifying past comes closer. Only Arion, the man from the sea, can help them. Nix, Garth.Mister Monday. 2004. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 of the Keys to the Kingdom series. Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is supposed to die. But then he meets sinister Mister Monday and everything changes. Seven days, seven keys,

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one mysterious book, one strange house filled with secrets.

Nix, Garth.Sabriel. 1995. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 in the Old Kingdom series. (Other books in this series are also available.) Ever since Sabriel was a tiny child, she has lived outside the Wall of the Old Kingdom - far away from the uncontrolled power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father is missing and Sabriel is called upon to cross back into that world to find him.

Paolini, Christopher.Eragon. 2004. Suggested reading age 13+. 5v.Book 1 of the Inheritance series (other books in the series are also available). When Eragon finds a dragon hatchling,

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he soon realizes that he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power.

Pattou, Edith.North child. 2006. Suggested reading age 9+. 4v.Rose was born into the world facing north, and as a north child, superstition says that she will be a wanderer, travelling far from home. This prophecy is fulfilled when she is taken on the back of a white bear to a mysterious empty castle, where a silent stranger appears to her night after night. When her curiosity overcomes her, she loses her heart, and must journey to a land east of the sun and west of the moon to reclaim it.

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Paver, Michelle.Wolf brother. 2005. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 of the chronicles of ancient darkness series. (Other books in this series are also available.) Thousands of years ago and the land is one dark forest. Then an ambitious and malevolent force conjures a demon so evil that it can be contained only in the body of a ferocious bear that will slay everything it sees.

Pearce, Jackson.Sweetly. 2011. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.As a child, Gretchen's twin sister was taken by a witch-like monster in the woods. Ever since, Gretchen and her brother, Ansel, have felt the long branches of the witch's forest threatening to make them disappear, too. When their stepmother casts

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Gretchen and Ansel out as teens, they stumble upon a sleepy Southern town.

Pearce, Philippa.Tom's midnight garden. 1998. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.When Tom hears the grandfather clock strike 13, he is not prepared for what is going to happen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him doesn't exist. But the magical place in which Tom finds himself is certainly a garden - his midnight garden.

Pratchett, Terry.The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents. 2002. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Discworld (children's) series. Scruffy tomcat Maurice has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper and his very own

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plague of strangely educated rats. And knowing the stories about rats and pipers, everyone is giving him money. Until they go to Bad Blintz and find someone playing a different tune.

Pratchett, Terry.Nation. 2008. Suggested reading age 9+. 3v.Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire.

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Pratchett, Terry. Truckers. 1988. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 in the Bromeliad / Nomes series. (Other books in this series are also available.) To the tiny nomes under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store is to be demolished.

Prue, Sally.Cold Tom. 2008. Suggested reading age 13+. 1v.Tom is one of the Tribe. But he is not like the others - he is clumsy and heavy, and the Tribe drive him away into the demon city. But Tom can't live with demons either - they are so hot, so foul, and he knows they are trying to enslave his mind. But there is nowhere else to run. Between the

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savage Tribe and the stifling demons, is there any way out for Tom? A beautiful and exciting story about a Tom, caught between his elfin home and the world of humans.

Pullman, PhilipClockwork, or all wound up. 1996. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v.One cold winter's evening, Fritz the novelist starts to tell his latest tale. His strange series of stories start to fit together - almost like clockwork. As the story unfolds, life and clockwork merge most peculiarly in this chilling suspense story.

Pullman, PhilipNorthern lights. 1998. Suggested reading age 13+. 3v.Book 1 of the His Dark Materials trilogy. (Other titles in the trilogy are

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also available.) When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. Their quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North where a team of scientists are conducting unspeakably horrible experiments. But something more perilous awaits Lyra.

Reeve, Philip.Mortal engines. 2002. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Book 1 of the Hungry City Chronicles. (Other books in this series are also available.) In a world where moving cities trawl the globe, Tom and Hester have been thrown out of theirs and left stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere. Hester is desperate for revenge while Tom is only desperate to get back on board his beloved London.

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Ridley, Philip.Krindlekrax. 2001. Suggested reading age 9+. 1v. Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone. 1997. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Harry Potter series. (Other books in this series are also available.) Harry had lived with his aunt, uncle and cousin for ten miserable years, in a cupboard under the stairs. Until he is rescued by an owl and taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he becomes a wizard.

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Sage, Angie.Magyk. 2006. Suggested reading age 9+. 3v.Book 1 of the Septimus Heap series (other books in the series are also available). A baby girl is rescued from a snowy path in the woods. A young queen is taken ill. An extraordinary wizard mysteriously resigns from his post. And all on the same night. A string of events, seemingly unconnected, begins to converge ten years later…

Singleton, Sarah.Century. 2005. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned that they live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then a chance meeting with the

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mysterious Claudius sets Mercy to questioning everything she has ever known.

Skelton, Matthew.Endymion Spring. 2006. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.In a college library in Oxford, Blake finds a battered old volume, with a strange clasp like a serpent's head - with real fangs. Printed on its front are words: Endymion Spring. The paper quivers, as if it's alive. And as Blake looks, words begin to appear on the page; words no one else can see…

Stewart, PaulBeyond the deepwoods. 2006. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.Book 1 of the Edge chronicles.(Other books in this series are also available).Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig is bought up by a

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family of woodtrolls. One cold night, Twig does what no woodtroll has ever done before - he strays from the path. So begins a heart-stopping adventure .

Taylor, G.P.Shadowmancer. 2003. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who will stop at nothing to control the highest power in the universe. The only people in his way are Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Their tortured struggles lead them to a dramatic climax in the gothic church of St Mary's.

Thompson, KateThe new policeman. 2006. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.JJ finds where time goes! Music proves to be the touchstone for communication between the fairy and

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the human domains and the book is saturated with the lure of Irish music. As for the New Policeman, his identity is kept a superbly guarded secret to the very last surprising moment.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The hobbit. 1937. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.A tale of the adventure of a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving, unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The fellowship of the ring. 1954. Suggested reading age 15+. 4v.Book 1 of The Lord of the Rings series (other books in this series are also available). A saga of dwarves, elves,

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and fierce goblins of long ago, and the story of Frodo, who, through the Ring, sets out to save his world from evil.

Walsh, PatThe Crowfield curse. 2010. Suggested reading age 9+. 2v.It's 1347 and fifteen-year-old Will, an orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey. Sent into the forest to gather wood, he rescues instead, a creature from a trap - a hob, who shares with Will a terrible secret. Somewhere in the forest behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave. And buried deep in the snow is an angel. But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the monks of the Abbey? When two hooded strangers arrive at Crowfield asking questions about the angel's grave. Will is drawn into a world of dangerous Old Magic.

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Warburton, RuthA witch in winter. 2012. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.Anna Winterson doesn't know she's a witch and would probably mock you for believing in magic, but after moving to the small town of Winter with her father, she learns more than she ever wanted to about power.

Westerfeld, Scott.The secret hour. 2006. Suggested reading age 11+. 2v.Book 1 in the Midnighters series (other books in this series are also available). Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time freezes. Nobody moves. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour - only they are free to move about the midnight time. These people call themselves Midnighters and each one

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has a different power that is strongest at midnight.

Wooding, ChrisStorm thief. Suggested reading age 13+. 2v.Set on the island city of Orokos, an isolated civilization that - to its inhabitants - is the only place in the world. If there's more out there, no one knows, because anyone who's ever dared explore the waters beyond a certain limit gets torn apart by artificially intelligent drones patrolling just beneath the surface. The titular Storm Thief isn't a character, but is rather the anthropomorphic personification given to the probability storms that occasionally rage over the city - storms that literally change the reality of the landscape.

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