Diana Wynne Jones, Author Starscape Books $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-4247-8
Told from the perspective of Rupert Venables, a Magid from planet Earth who keeps the ""Multiverse"" in balance, Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret (1997) follows Rupert's efforts to find his own replacement after his mentor dies and Rupert moves up
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author HarperTrophy $5.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15492-9
This ""gripping novel"" about a disembodied spirit in search of her identity ""serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues,"" said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. (Sept.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $16.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-688-16004-3
On a par with Jones's best (Charmed Life; Fire and Hemlock), this expansive novel manages to be both an affectionate send-up of the sword-and-sorcery genre and a thrilling fantasy adventure in its own right. Something is decidedly rotten in the...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-688-16365-5
Set in a world in which magic is the norm, this delectable adventure profiles the boyhood of the famous enchanter who plays a prominent role in the author's Chrestomanci series. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-17898-7
Infused with all manner of enchantments, this boisterous spoof of the campus novel reads like a cross between David Lodge and a particularly buoyant incarnation of J.R.R. Tolkien. Standards at the Wizards' University have fallen grievously in recent
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-447313-2
Omnibus paperback editions combine two Chrestomanci novels in each volume: Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant make up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I; Volume II has The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-623745-9
Omnibus paperback editions combine two Chrestomanci novels in each volume: Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant make up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I; Volume II has The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-029876-0
Omnibus paperback editions combine two Chrestomanci novels in each volume: Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant make up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I; Volume II has The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-688-15546-9
Omnibus paperback editions combine two Chrestomanci novels in each volume: Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant make up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I; Volume II has The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-008782-1
Out of print for more than two decades, Diana Wynne Jones's first novel, Witch's Business (1973), makes a welcome comeback. Siblings Jess and Frank start an underground business to help customers seek revenge, after their father cuts off their ...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-447350-7
"When five youngsters are given chemistry sets, the results are hilariously explosive," said PW. Ages 8-up. (Feb.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (497p) ISBN 978-0-06-055533-7
Old favorites come in new trimmings with the gathering together of these 16 previously published stories by Diana Wynne Jones in Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories. Shorter tales include ""The Master,"" a vet's account of a strange, portentous...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-688-07315-2
Vivian Smith, a young evacuee from the London blitz, is being sent to stay with her mother's Cousin Marty. But Vivian is met by a young boy named Jonathan, not Cousin Marty, who kidnaps her and takes her to Time City, a place that exists in space...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (230p) ISBN 978-0-688-07806-5
Young Christopher Chant has very unusual dreams: he gets out of bed, walks to the corner of the nursery and enters a lush, green valley that can lead him to any one of the hundreds of worlds that comprise what he calls the ``Almost Anywheres.''...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-688-08006-8
David dreads the upcoming holidays. Usually it means he is sent to camp or on an educational tour. This year, things are worsehis great-aunt and -uncle are confused about the last day of school and must cancel their own trip because they haven't...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-80600-6
In this adroitly told story, Mr. Crossley finds a note claiming that ``someone in this class is a witch,'' only the beginning of events that have 6B and the rest of the school in turmoil. Ages 8-12. (Oct.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $13.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-688-10611-9
After their father disappears, Mig and her brother, Chris, go with their mother to visit Aunt Maria, an elderly tyrant who is as demure as she is iron-willed. Upon arriving, Mig and her mother discover that they are expected to keep house for Aunt...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (412p) ISBN 978-0-688-11882-2
The acclaimed author of children's fiction has turned her considerable talents to writing for adults, and has come up with a buoyant and boisterous romp through several universes. Unbeknownst to most people, a group of benevolent witches are hard at
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86859-8
Keeping the multiverse in balance requires Magids--powerful magicians who are sensible, pragmatic and often very busy. One such Magid, Rupert Venable, is sorting out a crisis in the Koryfonic Empire while, on earth, he must locate the proper...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $16.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-074743-5
Wynne Jones's latest addition to her Chrestomanci books brings a servant's eye-view (a lGosford Park ) to her characteristic blend of magic, mystery and snortingly funny slapstick. Instead of going on to secondary school like most of his friends, 12-
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14598-9
Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-029706-0
Not even the glamorous presence of the nine-lived enchanter Chrestomanci (star of the Chrestomanci Books, noted below) is enough to dispel the scraped-together air that pervades this grouping of four short stories, three of which were originally...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperTrophy $6.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-447351-4
A young evacuee from the London blitz is captured and taken to Time City, a place that exists in space and time outside history. "A powerfully moving story about children who are, quite literally, racing through time to save their world,"...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $16.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-052318-3
Whimsy, invention and the chilling sense of a world (multiple worlds, actually) gone topsy-turvy characterize this grandly outsize fantasy from Jones (Year of the Griffin). In an alternate England, where the king maintains the magic of the realm by...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-447356-9
Trouble starts to brew when a boy returns home from school to find a Goon unwilling to move until his author father pays the thug's boss 2,000 words. PW
called this "a very funny, very suspenseful astral tale." Ages 10-up. (Mar.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (193p) ISBN 978-0-06-441018-2
" 'Stealer of Souls,' the only story original to the collection, is also its most ambitious and successful, offering Jones aficionados the pleasure of watching characters from different books (Charmed Life's Cat Chant and The...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperEos $7.99 (784p) ISBN 978-0-06-076371-8
Omnibus paperback editions split the Dalemark Quartet into two volumes. Volume one contains Cart and Cwidder
and Drowned Ammet
; volume two contains The Spellcoats
and The Crown of Dalemark
. Ages 12-up. (May)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . HarperCollins/ Greenwillow $17.99 (515p) ISBN 978-0-06-113124-0
Wynne Jones is at the top of her form in this excellent addition to the Chrestomanci books, set not long after the events chronicled in Charmed Life
. Marianne's summer gets off to an unpromising start, thanks to her grandmother, the willful and
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . Penguin/Firebird $11.99 (179p) ISBN 978-0-14-240718-9
Celestial intrigue and the nature of storytelling are just two of the strands woven together in Jones's (the Chrestomanci books) inventive novella. Sent from her grandparents' London home in disgrace, Hayley arrives in Ireland to stay with...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . Greenwillow $17.99 (404p) ISBN 978-0-06-147795-9
Longtime fans and new readers alike will revel in Jones's self-assured return to the realm she charted in Howl's Moving Castle,
a riff on English and German fairytales, and its Arabian Nights–themed sequel, Castle in the Air
. When...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author . Greenwillow $16.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-06-186684-5
One of the foremost living children's fantasy writers, Jones serves up a quirky comedy of magicians dealing with an incursion of troublesome fairies in contemporary England. Andrew Hope, an absentminded academic with magical abilities he barely
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author HarperTrophy $7.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-06-447268-5
Omnibus paperback editions combine two Chrestomanci novels in each volume: Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant make up The Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Volume I; Volume II has The Magicians of Caprona and Witch Week.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-82030-9
A powerful story about children who are racing through time to save their world. Ages 10-14. (Apr.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-394-82031-6
Praised by PW as ``among the most rewarding novels available for readers of all ages,'' this fantasy tells of the difficult mission confronting Sirius the Dog Star when he is sentenced to be reborn on Earth. Ages 9-14. (Feb.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Simon Pulse $3.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-02-043921-9
In this fantasy adventure set in mystical Dalemark, the children of a murdered gypsy begin an investigation into their father's death that has far-reaching consequences. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $15.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-688-09686-1
Abdullah the rug merchant leaves his humdrum life far behind when he purchases a threadbare magic carpet from a mysterious stranger. Almost immediately, Abdullah is whisked off on a series of adventures that bear an uncanny resemblance to his own...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Random House Books for Young Readers $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-81839-7
When five youngsters are given chemistry sets, the results are hilariously explosive. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $16 (295p) ISBN 978-0-688-12488-5
Somewhere in the middle of this rather bewildering novel, its heroine, Ann, realizes that she is not--as she and the reader had thought--the 12-year-old daughter of suburban London grocers, but is in fact a 20-something rebel from another galaxy....
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author, Diana Wynne Jones, Author Greenwillow Books $14 (148p) ISBN 978-0-688-11367-4
Set in a contemporary England that is only slightly beset by enchantments, these three stories brim with the wry takes on everyday situations and the marvelous slapstick wizardry that have made Jones's novels ( The Ogre Downstairs ) so howlingly...
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Diana Wynne Jones, completed by Ursula Jones. Greenwillow, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-229507-1
Set in a luminous and beguiling magical land, this standalone novel was begun by acclaimed fantasist Wynne Jones before her death in 2011 and has been seamlessly completed by her sister Ursula, an actress and writer. Just a day after Eileen seems to
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author, Graham Philpot, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-11195-3
This prettily creative work exudes a certain storybook charm. Philpot's lushly colored artwork blends folksy details, skewed perspectives, illuminated letters and fancifully bordered pages into a diverting potpourri. The story concerns young Kay,...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author, Joseph A. Smith, Illustrator, Josh A. Smith, Illustrator Puffin Books $3.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-037937-2
Aimed at a slightly younger audience than Wynne Jones's novels (see The Time of the Ghost, p. 442), three extended tales form ""an ideal introduction to the quirky humor and witchery that characterize this author's work,"" said PW. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author, Mark Zug, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-055530-6
In its U.S. debut, Wild Robert, a humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones, illus. by Mark Zug, Heather's parents serve as curators at Castlemaine, the stately home where she lives. Trying to escape the tourist crowds, Heather climbs a secluded, ...
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Diana Wynne Jones, Author, Mark Zug, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15.99 (132p) ISBN 978-0-06-056205-2
Troublesome houseguests overstay their welcome in Stopping for a Spell (1993) by Diana Wynne Jones, including an unruly armchair in ""Chair Person,"" monstrous matriarchs in ""The Four Grannies"" and a rude old friend in ""Who Got Rid of Angus...
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Diana Wynne Jones, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky. Greenwillow, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-207511-6
This funny story updates fairy tale conventions while highlighting Jones’s subversive wit and her firm belief that children can control their own lives. Earwig rules the roost at St. Morwald’s Home for Children until she is adopted by a witchy woman
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