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series4 books2011

Emotional in tone, set in secondary world.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

His Dark MaterialsUniverse

universe13 books1995

About coming of age, set in parallel universe.

“In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends.”
from the catalogue

Start with Northern Lights →

includes His Dark Materials, The Book of Dust

The Phantom TollboothNovel

Norton Justerstandalone novel1961

Portal fantasy, whimsical in tone, about quests and coming of age.

“A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.”
from the catalogue

AngelboundUniverse

universe31 books2013

“Purgatory settles its arguments the old-fashioned way: two souls, one arena, a fight to the death that decides where the wicked spend eternity.”
from the catalogue

Start with Angelbound →

includes Angelbound Origins, Angelbound Offspring, Angelbound Worlds, Angelbound Short Fiction, Xavier Trilogy

Peter PanUniverse

universe112 books1902

Fantasy.

“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget.”
from the catalogue

Start with Peter Pan →

includes Peter Pan, The Untold Stories of Neverland, Neverland, Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy, Fairy Haven, Disney Fairies, Hook's Revenge, Neverland (Heather Killough-Walden)

Faerie WarsSeries

series5 books2003

completed

Portal fantasy, about fae, set in fairyland.

“As of 2011, there are five books in the ongoing series.”
from the catalogue

Start with Faerie Wars →

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