There's always room for another fantasy quest trilogy--as long as it has distinction, originality and a cracking plot. Eragon has. This is the first book in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy, which he began writing when aged only 15, is an amazing debut that demonstrates a written maturity beyond its creator's years. Any rough edges borne t...more
Meg can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's getting bullied at school, and is also seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons.
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his father makes this a very special and exciting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, which ...more
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ...more
Sandy and Dennys interrupt their father's experiment and find themselves in the middle of a desert. They discover that they must not only find the way home, but must also reunite a man and his son--a boy named Noah. The first book in the Time Quartet.