Aurelia
by Anne Osterlund
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Puffin
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Someone wants crown princess Aurelia dead. And it’s up to her childhood friend, Robert, to figure out who’s trying to kill her while trying not to fall in love with her.
As Aurelia learns of the attempts on her life, she realizes she must do whatever she [...]
Publisher’s Weekly has a great Q&A with Diana Wynne Jones, talking about her books, the world of Howl, and House of Many Ways.
Full Interview
(interview might contain what some people consider spoilers about various of her books)
Some of my favorite highlights -
You’ve said you don’t start out with a thoroughly plotted-out book. What do you [...]
Twice Upon a Marigold
by Jean Ferris
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Harcourt Children’s Books
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Once Upon a Marigold, the awful Queen Olympia fell in the river and was rushed out of her family’s lives, much to their relief. Now though, she’s back. After spending a year with amnesia and a far [...]
House of Many Ways
by Diana Wynne Jones
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June 10, 2008
Greenwillow (HarperCollins)
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Charmain finds herself house sitting for a wizard, in a house where every door leads to multiple places, depending on which way one turns. Between the magic house and her new job at the royal library, she becomes entrenched in [...]
Castle in the Air
by Diana Wynne Jones
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In this sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, Abdullah spends his time daydreaming about a more exciting life, filled with princesses and bandits. His dreams come true when he obtains a magic carpet and meets his princess, Flower-in-the-Night, but the [...]
Every review I write is edited by my friend Chelsea Campbell. She’s also a writer whose young adult superhero novel is making the rounds via her agent. Now, she has had her first interview, so I decided to celebrate by linking it here. When this book, The Rise of Renegade X, gets [...]
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