The Wee Free Men is one of many fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett and one of the few Discworld novels targeted at young adults. As monsters appear on the chalk, Tiffany meets the battle-loving Nac Mac Feegles (Wee Free Men). Soon, her brother Wentworth is stolen by the Queen, ruler of the world known as … Read more
“You see the one thing that mustn’t happen is for you to meet the old lady.” The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All is the full title of the 11th and penultimate book in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series. However, the children’s classic often shortens its title to The Picts and … Read more
A Hat Full of Sky is one of several books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.This fantasy novel is also one of the books Pratchett wrote for young adults. As Tiffany Aching leaves the farm she calls home to learn witchcraft under the dual-bodied Miss Level, an ancient threat is attracted to her immense power. Can … Read more
Missee Lee is the tenth book in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series. However, the novel refers to itself as a sequel to the third book, Peter Duck. This suggests that the book is a story created by the main characters, like Peter Duck. However, there is nothing else to support or contradict this theory. … Read more
Silver on the Tree is the fifth and final book in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence. The Dark is approaching its final and strongest rising. As a result, the Six (Simon, Jane, Barney, Merriman, Will and Bran) must retrieve Pendragon’s sword, Eriras, from the Lost Land. However, the Dark knows there is only … Read more
The Grey King is the fourth and penultimate book in Susan Cooper’s award-winning The Dark is Rising Sequence. While recovering from an illness, Will travels to Wales to live on the farm of one of his uncles and aunts. Soon, he meets Bran and the duo set out on a quest to find the Golden … Read more
‘It looked, Jane thought, like a single representative of a fearful unknown species, from another planet, or from some unthinkably distant part of our own past.’ Greenwitch is the third book in Susan Cooper’s award-winning The Dark is Rising Sequence. As the Easter holidays begin, the Trewissick Grail is stolen. Coincidentally, Will Stanton, and Simon, … Read more
The Dark is Rising, written by Susan Cooper, is the second book in The Dark is Rising Sequence. Unlike the first book (Over Sea, Under Stone), this book is split into three parts (The Finding, The Learning and The Testing) and also uses chapter titles instead of numbering them 1-13. On Midwinter’s Eve, Will Stanton … Read more
First published in 1953, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table was written by Roger Lancelyn Green and illustrated by Lotte Reiniger. This collection of stories mainly takes place in the peaceful land of Logres that Arthur established in Britain. Roger Green wrote this book with one purpose: putting the stand-alone legends of … Read more
The Big Six is the ninth instalment and first mystery in Arthur Ransome’s fictional Swallows and Amazons series. This 400-page children’s classic is split into 32 chapters and an epilogue with each chapter having its own title and being numbered by roman numerals. Furthermore, this novel includes occasional black and white pictures with a maximum … Read more