Posts Tagged ‘wizards’
The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1972
Fantasy
ISBN: 141650964X
272 Pages
Synopsis
Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation. …
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House of Many Ways
HarperCollins, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061477958
416 pages
Synopsis
It’s been almost twenty years, but Jones is finally back into the wonderful fantasy world of Howl—Howl’s Moving Castle (1986), Castle In The Air (1991)—and although Howl, Sophie and Calcifer play important roles in this book, the spotlight is on a young girl named Charmain. Grown up privileged with an overprotective mother, Charmain loves nothing but books. …
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Skin Hunger
Atheneum, 2007
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0689840942
368 pages
National Book Award Honor Book
Synopsis
Two stories take place throughout the text, and at first, are seemingly unrelated. Sadima, who has the ability to understand and communicate with animals through her thoughts, joins with two men who are attempting to resurrect the old knowledge of magic, which has been outlawed for many years. A few generations in the future, a boy named Hahp has been exiled by his wealthy and disapproving father to live and be taught at the school of wizardry. …
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The Tales Of Beetle The Bard
Children’s High Level Group, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0545128285
128 pages
Synopsis
Just like the muggle community (non-magical people), the world of wizards also has their own fairy tales with morals for young witches and wizards. Similar to many of the tales of the Brothers Grimm, these fables continue to give a glimpse into the ever-expansive world of Harry Potter, and many of these fables even have lessons that non-magical types can learn. …
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The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics
Atheneum Books, 1971
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 1416509623
192 pages
Newbery Honor Book
Synopsis
Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age. …
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Earthsea – Film
Lion’s Gate
Fantasy
ASIN: B00077BPA0
Synopsis
The world of Earth Sea is out of balance, and now a young wizard must save it from the Nameless Ones. First, however, he must learn how to be a wizard and how to grow up. A result of his pride and anger, he uses a dangerous spell to bring a member of the dead back to life. However, what he gets instead is a Nameless One that he releases into the world. He must find and fight the evil creature while at the same time journeying to the distant isles of Earthsea in order to restore balance to their world. …
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A Wizard of Earthsea – Reviewing Classics
Parnassus Press, 1968
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0553262505
183 pages
Synopsis
A young and very powerful wizard is discovered when he saves his village from marauding intruders, he is quickly taken in by a local Magus in order to be trained. Constantly haughty and impatient, Ged in eventually sent to the school to be trained as an official Magus. …
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