Rapunzel’s Revenge
By Shannon Hale
Release Date:
August 19, 2008
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
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When Rapunzel turned twelve she defied Mother Gothel and climbed over the walls of her home, curious about what lay on the other side of their beautiful gardens. Outside the walls she found desert wasteland and enslaved people, [...]
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 [...]
House of Many Ways
by Diana Wynne Jones
Release Date:
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 [...]
Howl’s Moving Castle
By Diana Wynne Jones
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Sophie Hatter is an eldest daughter and therefore destined to be a failure. So when the Witch of the Waste comes into her hat shop and turns her into an old woman, Sophie isn’t particularly surprised. In fact, being old [...]
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
By Jessica Day George
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Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books
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The lass was an unwanted fourth daughter, and her mother despaired so much over her birth that she never gave her a name. Her siblings try to care for her and she feels closest [...]
Mira, Mirror
By Mette Ivie Harrison
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Speak
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Mira desperately wants a sister, someone to love and trust. When her parents sell her to a witch, Mira thinks she has finally found a sister in her fellow apprentice, but her new sister instead uses Mira’s trust to lock her [...]
A Curse Dark as Gold
By Elizabeth Bunce
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Arthur A. Levine Books
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Charlotte Miller has just lost her father, and now she stands to lose the family wool mill as well if she can’t find a way to keep in competition against the steam powered factory [...]
Spinners
By Donna Jo Napoli
& Richard Tchen
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Puffin
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A tailor promised his beloved’s father that he would give her a wedding dress of gold, but he had no money for such thread. All he had was a stolen spinning wheel and a room full of straw. With tears [...]
Book of a Thousand Days
By Shannon Hale
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Bloomsbury
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Dashti trained to be a lady’s maid, learning her letters and manners, and wielding generations of healing songs to ease a bad temper or help a sore muscle. What she found instead was a scared young lady who was to be [...]
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