fantastic fiction

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Gulliver's stories for pleasure reading

1960
Simplified stories taken from Gulliver's Travels. One story is about Gulliver's experiences in the land of little people, the other is about the land of the giants.

James and the giant peach

a children's story
1980
A fantasy about a young boy and a huge magical peach.

Double spell

1986
Strangely attracted to an antique doll, twelve-year-old twins buy the toy and soon find themselves haunted by powerful and tragic memories of ancestral twins who had also been owners of the doll.

Domes of fire

1992
When the empire faces the danger of being tearing apart by monsters, Sparhawk and the Queen travel to the empire of the east for help.

All the Weyrs of Pern

1991
The dragonriders of Pern have dedicated their lives to fighting Thread, spores that rained on and ravaged the land, and now they finally have the chance to eradicate it forever.

The Borrowers afloat

1990
The Borrowers, a family of miniature people, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. Sequel to "The Borrowers afield.".

The boy in the drawer

Shelley knows everything is definitely not okay when she finds a boy in her sock drawer who grows when he is treated badly and shrinks when he is treated nicely.

Child of the air

1991
When Grandpa dies Myl and her brother Brevan are made geth, throwaways who become slaves to the townsfolk, until the children discover that they can fly.

The dragon reborn

Book Three of the Wheel of Time
1992
Tells the story of a man doomed to save and then destroy the world.

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