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    1. A Sudden Wild Magic (1996)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      For aeons the mages of Arth, a neighbouring universe, have been looting Earth of ideas, innovations and technologies, all the while manipulating events and creating devastating catastrophes for their own edification. Now this brazen piracy is threatening Earth with total extinction. It is up to... (learn more about this book)

    1. Minor Arcana (1996)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Seven tales of fantasy, including the stories of: a child born to an ordered world, pre-ordained to spread Dissolution; a girl who so loves the sun that she will deny her humanity for all time; and a writer battling for supremacy over her computer keyboard. (learn more about this book)

    1. Fantasy Stories (Red Hot Reads - (Formerly Story Library)) (1994)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Here are 18 imaginative stories from such accomplished writers as C.S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling. Splendid line drawings add to the otherworldly atmosphere. (learn more about this book)

    1. Yes Dear (1992)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Of all her family, only Grandmother understands, or even has time for, Kay's story of catching a magical golden leaf, the kind that makes sand pies--and dreams--real, because she had caught one too when she was young. (learn more about this book)

    1. Aunt Maria (1991)

      (also published as: 'Black Maria')

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      In Cranbury-on-Sea Aunt Maria rules with a rod of sweetness far tougher than iron and deadlier than poison. Strange and awful things keep happening in Cranbury. Why are all the men apparently gray-suited zombies? Why do all the children -- if you ever see them -- behave like clones? And what has... (learn more about this book)

    1. Howl/Castle: Book 2

      Castle in the Air (1990)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent his time daydreaming. In his dreams he was not the son of his father, but... (learn more about this book)

    1. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Book 2

      The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost Anywheres. Then Christopher discovers that he... (learn more about this book)

    1. A Tale of Time City (1987)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Time City is built on a patch of time and space outside history. It is full of wonders and haunted by "time ghosts," but it is nearly worn out and doomed to destruction. In September 1939, Vivian Smith is on a train, being evacuated from London, when she is kidnapped by two boys from Time City,... (learn more about this book)

    1. Howl/Castle: Book 1

      Howl's Moving Castle (1986)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter. After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark... (learn more about this book)

    1. Fire and Hemlock (1985)

      by Diana Wynne Jones

      Polly has two sets of memories... One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening... (learn more about this book)