The Magician's Nephew ($4.74), by C.S. Lewis and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.Book Description
When Digory and Polly are tricked by Digory's peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an experiment, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. What happens to the children when they touch Uncle Andrew's magic rings is far beyond anything even the old magician could have imagined.
Hurtled into the Wood between the Worlds, the children soon find that they can enter many worlds through the mysterious pools there. In one world they encounter the evil Queen Jadis, who wreaks havoc in the streets of London when she is accidentally brought back with them. When they finally manage to pull her out of London, unintentionally taking along Uncle Andrew and a coachman with his horse, they find themselves in what will come to be known as the land of Narnia.
It's nearly over, but you can read the first volume of the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, Here, There Be Dragons ($7.99 Kindle), by James A. Owen, for free over on Scribd.com. It's 347 pages and you only have the weekend, as the free read expires November 9.Book Description
An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.
Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.
M Is for Magic and InterWorld, by Neil Gaiman (author of Coraline, $4.74), are each $3.99 today. He also has six volumes of short stories (not necessarily for young adults/children) at 99 cents each: Selections from Fragile Things
M Is for Magic
Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers -- but always embrace the unexpected:
- A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party.
- A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.
- A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.
- A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.
InterWorld
Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces -- armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice: to join an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds. Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy -- and all the others like him.
Johnny and the Dead ($1.76), by Terry Pratchett, is the second in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy. Unfortunately, the end of the trilogy, Johnny and the Bomb, isn't available on Kindle (yet), but you can get the start, Only You Can Save Mankind, for $3.99, as well as most of his Children's Discworld series at the same price: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents , The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky. Only Wintersmith ($5.69) is above the usual cutoff for bargains (but has a $9.99 digital list price).Book Description
The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren't about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see the outraged ghosts, and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn't mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn't speak up, who will?
There are many versions of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women in the Kindle store, with prices ranging from zero to $5.00. However, you can now get an illustrated volume free over at MobileRead that also contains Good Wives (sometimes simply titled "Part II"), taken from the 1880 version titled Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Click HERE for the download (it's large, over 6MB, so I'd transfer to your Kindle using USB).
