Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Drowned Ammet
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Drowned Ammet
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200798
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The people of Holand in South Dalemark are bitterly oppressed by the tyrannical earl Hadd. Informers, secret police, and cruel rent-collectors terrorize the countryside, and Mitt has grown up with more than enough reasons for joining the freedom fighters. 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.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200798
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The people of Holand in South Dalemark are bitterly oppressed by the tyrannical earl Hadd. Informers, secret police, and cruel rent-collectors terrorize the countryside, and Mitt has grown up with more than enough reasons for joining the freedom fighters. 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.
Cart And Cwidder
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Clennen and his family make their living as travelling musicians. A danger deepens around them, Moril is chosen to receive the mysterious musical instrument - the ancient cwidder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752796
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Clennen and his family make their living as travelling musicians. A danger deepens around them, Moril is chosen to receive the mysterious musical instrument - the ancient cwidder.
The Crown Of Dalemark
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192752772
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
The Spellcoats
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780060298739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Tanaqui discovers she has the means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780060298739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Tanaqui discovers she has the means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062244566
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062244566
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.
Power of Three
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006220081X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ayna could predict the future. Cari could find what was lost. Gair thought he was ordinary. The three children of Gest, the chief of Garholt, know the perils of the Moor on which they live. The Dorig, their people's enemies, are cold-blooded, fierce underwater creatures who terrify anyone unlucky enough to happen upon them. The Giants are dangerous and violent. But it's not until their home is invaded that Gair learns of a dying curse that endangers all three peoples of the Moor. A curse that ordinary Gair, with the help of his extraordinary brother and sister, may be able to break, but only at the most dreadful risk to all three, and to the Moor itself.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006220081X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ayna could predict the future. Cari could find what was lost. Gair thought he was ordinary. The three children of Gest, the chief of Garholt, know the perils of the Moor on which they live. The Dorig, their people's enemies, are cold-blooded, fierce underwater creatures who terrify anyone unlucky enough to happen upon them. The Giants are dangerous and violent. But it's not until their home is invaded that Gair learns of a dying curse that endangers all three peoples of the Moor. A curse that ordinary Gair, with the help of his extraordinary brother and sister, may be able to break, but only at the most dreadful risk to all three, and to the Moor itself.
Aunt Maria
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200763
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 happened to Mig's brother, Chris? Could gentle, civilized Aunt Maria, with her talk and daily tea parties, possibly have anything to do with it? Diana Wynne Jones once again has created a fantastic, magical world. Her brilliant storytelling and wonderful sense of humor totally involve the reader in the lives of a lovable young heroine and a villainess readers will love to hate.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200763
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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 happened to Mig's brother, Chris? Could gentle, civilized Aunt Maria, with her talk and daily tea parties, possibly have anything to do with it? Diana Wynne Jones once again has created a fantastic, magical world. Her brilliant storytelling and wonderful sense of humor totally involve the reader in the lives of a lovable young heroine and a villainess readers will love to hate.
The Time of the Ghost
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200836
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
There's been an accident! Something's wrong! She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken -- and learns she is their only hope against a deadly danger. 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.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062200836
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
There's been an accident! Something's wrong! She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken -- and learns she is their only hope against a deadly danger. 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.
Hexwood
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007440189
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I’d be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a Grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!”
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007440189
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I’d be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a Grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!”