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BoggartSeries
series3 books1993
Set in contemporary.
“Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.”
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Green MouseSeries
series7 books1904
completed
About magical artifacts, set in our world and early 20th century.
Start with The Green Mouse →
The DaydreamerNovel
Ian McEwanstandalone novel1994
About coming of age, set in our world and contemporary.
The Wind in the Willows UniverseSeries
series17 books1908
About friendship.
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Philippa FisherSeries
series3 books2008
About friendship, set in contemporary and our world.
“Embarrassed by her free-spirited parents and lonely when her best friend moves away, a self-conscious eleven-year-old girl named Philippa summons a wish-granting fairy godmother, with unexpected results.”
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Start with Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister →
StardustNovel
Neil Gaimanstandalone novel1998
Adventurous in tone, about quests and coming of age, set in fairyland.
“Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees.”
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