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CatwingsSeries
series7 books1988
completed
About coming of age, set in our world.
“Catwings is also the title of the first book in the series.”
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BoggartSeries
series3 books1993
About fae, set in british isles.
“Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.”
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Start with The Boggart →
Tuck EverlastingNovel
Natalie Babbittstandalone novel1975
Bittersweet and reflective in tone, about immortality and coming of age.
Tales of MagicSeries
series7 books1954
completed
About friendship, set in our world.
“Each book follows a different, sometimes overlapping set of children and a different magical object or rule, from Knight's Castle to the deliberately ambiguous Magic or Not? and its sequel The Well-Wishers.”
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Start with Half Magic →
Black and Blue MagicNovel
Zilpha Keatley Snyderstandalone novel1966
About coming of age and identity, set in our world.
“Twelve-year-old Harry Houdini Marco is awkward and clumsy, bearing little resemblance to his magician namesake, until he acquires the gift of flight.”
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The Halloween TreeNovel
Ray Bradburystandalone novel1972
Adventure, about friendship and coming of age, set in our world.
“Eight boys gather on Halloween night to trick-or-treat with their ninth friend, Pipkin, only Pipkin never shows, having vanished on some errand that may cost him his life.”
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