 | The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Atmospheric and satisfying. a more complete view of the fairy world as I was told about them as a child. These fairies are NOT human. They are apart alien but beautiful and worthy of respect and awe.
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 | Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin Mckinley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.25 Robin McKiley takes B & B to another place. This is the ultimate I wish I were in that book book.
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 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $3.93 Even better than the movies--and the movies are great.
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 | The Doll's House by Rumer Godden
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Not as good as Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, but a great book for anyone mad for dollhouses.
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 | Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
Buy used from: $36.95 This book has it all: the lonely child who just moved, dolls and the creation of a fantastic dollhouse.
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 | The high house by Honor Arundel
Charming book about a little girl (orphaned of course) who goes to live with her aunt in Edinburgh.
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 | Flambards in Summer by K.M. Peyton
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $0.50 The middle book.
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 | Flambards (Oxford Children's Modern Classics) by K.M. Peyton
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $1.61 These are YA books, but they were top of the pops romance to me when I read them. They have hunting and horses and hounds for girls and wonderful scenes of early flight and early motorcars as well.
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 | Flambards Divided by K.M. Peyton
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $1.57 FINALLY Christina comes to her senses and gets together with Mark. This was the first series I read where the protagonist (like Harry Potter) grows up. and, like HP, Christina and Mark are as appealing as adults (even divorced, widowed confused adults) as they were as children.
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 | The snowstorm by Beryl Netherclift
Buy used from: $6.99 A cozy the children go to the relatives house because Mom and Dad must go away and while they are in the neat old house they find a treasure books. One of the best of this sort (and I am inclined to like them all).
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 | An Eva Ibbotson Collection: Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13, Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.21 Eva Ibbotson always writes with humor, some of her stories may seem a bit more for the young than others on this list.
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 | The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
Buy used from: $0.01 Check oout the Chillingham Castle website to see the cows (and the castle) that inspired this story.
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 | The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.18 I know this seems like a long book, but I first read it about the time of these others (really). I still especially like the opening chapters about Ash's background and parents.
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 | Rumpole's Return by John Mortimer
Buy used from: $0.25 I enjoyed all of the Rumpole books, but RR is even better than most because it is longer and a bit more fleshed out.
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