E Nesbit
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When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens. Could this really be an enchanted castle? Don't be a duffer, there's no such thing. But with the air thick with magic, the sun blazing down, and a maze hiding a sleeping girl at its centre, the holidays might just...
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Looking Glass Library volume 4
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A collection of tales which shows how dragons can shape the fates of princes, queens, and ordinary children.
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E. Nesbit completed her best known trilogy of fantasy books with The story of the Amulet. The other two books are Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. In The story of the amulet, the children obtain half of a magical amulet in hopes it will grant the safe return of their parents and baby brother. As they, along with the Psammead, attempt to restore the amulet they are transported through time.
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In the second novel of the Bastables, the family fortune as been restored, but that doesn't stop the children from getting into adventures and trouble. They are eventually banished to the country, where they form the society of the Would-Be-Good to aid all mankind and themselves in the bargain.