Diana Wynne Jones
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Muy al sur de Ingary, un joven mercader de alfombras llamado Abdullah fantasea con una vida emocionante llena de bandidos y princesas en apuros... Hasta que un misterioso extraño le vende una alfombra voladora. A partir de entonces se embarcará en un viaje donde conocerá a genios, sultanes, princesas intrépidas y magos con los que descubrirá que sus ensoñaciones son mucho más que simples castillos en el aire.
Inspirada en Las mil y una noches,...
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En el país de Ingary, donde existen cosas como las botas de siete leguas o las capas de invisibilidad, que una bruja te maldiga no es algo inusual. Cuando la Bruja del Páramo convierte a Sophie Hatter en una anciana, la joven abandona la sombrerería familiar para pedir ayuda en el único lugar mágico que se le ocurre: el castillo ambulante que atemoriza a los habitantes de Market Chipping. Pues dentro no sólo se halla un demonio del fuego, sino...
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En la ciudad de High Norland, la joven Charmain Baker pasa sus días con la nariz siempre metida en algún libro. Cuando su familia la envía a la casa de un pariente mago, ella parte emocionada por vivir al fin su propia aventura. Pero a su llegada se topa con un confuso laberinto de habitaciones extrañas, un aprendiz sin maestro e infinidad de criaturas singulares. Para colmo, pronto se ve involucrada en una misión del rey por la que acude una...
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A timeless classic with brand-new cover art! Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer.
Volume III contains Conrad's Fate and The Pinhoe Egg.
In Conrad's Fate, Conrad Tesdinic must overcome his terrible karma while working at the mysterious Stallery Mansion. Luckily for him, young Christopher Chant is also undercover at Stallery to rescue his friend Millie.
In...
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"Always perfectly magical." -Neil Gaiman
A timeless classic with brand-new cover art! Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer.
Volume I contains Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant.
In Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci book, the orphaned Cat Chant and his sister Gwendolen are taken to live at Chrestomanci Castle. There they are under...
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HarperCollins
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2009
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Dapper, debonair, and wise, the great enchanter Chrestomanci has nine lives and a strong personality as well as strong magic. That personality reverberates in each of these four dazzling stories.
A warlock tries to escape Chrestomanci's justice by fleeing to another world-with hilarious results. Cat Chant and Tonino Montana reluctantly join forces when Chrestomanci sends them on a visit that turns suddenly dangerous. The youngest best-selling
...27) Mixed magics
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Greenwillow Books
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2001.
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Four separate incidents test the power of the Chrestomanci, a powerful enchanter with nine lives, to control misuses of magic on various worlds.
28) Aunt Maria
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Greenwillow Books
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1991.
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While visiting and caring for Great-Aunt Maria, Mig and Chris discover that their "helpless" relative has frightening powers.
29) Archer's Goon
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Greenwillow Books
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[1984]
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After the Goon moves into the Sykes' house and refuses to budge, thirteen-year-old Howard learns some startling information about his family, including the fact that he is adopted and that his father is connected with the seven wizards who run the town.
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Greenwillow Books
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[1999]
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Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And "reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana Wynne Jones. Here are seven tales-seven doorways to bizarre, yet strangely familiar worlds-to transport one and all. In these worlds are a child born to an ordered society but preordained to spread Dissolution... a girl who so loves the sun that she renounces...
34) Drowned Ammet
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Dalemark quartet ; 2
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HarperTrophy/HarperCollins Publishers
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2001.
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When his protest against the tyrannical government fails, a young boy escapes, with two other children, to the mysterious Holy Islands where they learn the identity and the power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
35) Cart and cwidder
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Atheneum
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1977.
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When their father, a traveling minstrel, is killed, three children involved in rebellion and intrigue inherit a lute-like cwidder with more than musical powers.
36) The spellcoats
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Dalemark quartet ; 3
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Greenwillow Books
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1995.
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Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
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Greenwillow Books
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1996.
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A ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the girls and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the Melfords.
38) Power of three
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Greenwillow Books
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1977.
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The curse on Orban spreads bad luck to the rest of the Otmounders, the Giants, and the Dorig until three Otmounder children are born with Gifts.
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Greenwillow Books
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2012.
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"This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces written and/or chosen by Diana Wynne Jones will be required reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the genre. Reflections includes insightful literary criticism alongside autobiographical anecdotes about reading tours (including an account of the author's famous travel jinx), revelations about the origins of the author's books,...
