City of Heavenly Fire
Clary and Jace face Sebastian's dark army while Emma and Julian's story begins in Los Angeles.
2,039-word summary · 9 min read
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A Darker Shade of Magic
Antari Kell Maresh, a blood magician who travels between Londons, meets thief Delilah Bard after she steals a stone of Black London magic that should have…
2,541-word summary · 11 min read
The Witches
A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.
2,738-word summary · 12 min read
The Red Pyramid
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.
2,682-word summary · 12 min read
Hatchet
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
2,770-word summary · 12 min read
Where the Red Fern Grows
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
2,990-word summary · 13 min read
Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.
3,297-word summary · 15 min read
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's edge.
2,330-word summary · 10 min read
The Underground Railroad
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
2,936-word summary · 13 min read
The Subtle Knife
Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.
3,227-word summary · 14 min read
The House of Hades
Percy and Annabeth cross Tartarus while the five close the Doors of Death before Gaea wakes.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
The Hero of Ages
Vin and Elend face ash, mist, and Ruin itself as the prophecies fail and Sazed searches old faiths for answers.
2,559-word summary · 11 min read
The Death Cure
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
2,955-word summary · 13 min read
The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
Stardust
Tristran Thorn climbs over the wall of Wall to fetch a fallen star and finds Yvaine, witches, and princes hunting her.
2,490-word summary · 11 min read
Prince Caspian
The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz.
2,304-word summary · 10 min read
James and the Giant Peach
Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York City.
2,384-word summary · 11 min read
Inkheart
Bookbinder Mo reads characters alive and daughter Meggie is pulled into Capricorn's hunt for Inkheart.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
House of Flame and Shadow
Bryce lands outside Midgard while Hunt sits in Asteri dungeons and the war for two worlds builds.
2,983-word summary · 13 min read
Graceling
Katsa, Graced with killing, breaks from her uncle's use of her and follows a kidnapped prince toward a hidden king.
2,517-word summary · 11 min read
Ella Enchanted
Cursed to obey, Ella fights for freedom and love in a Cinderella retelling.
2,725-word summary · 12 min read
Eldest
Eragon trains with Oromis in Ellesmera while Roran defends Carvahall and Nasuada leads the Varden toward war.
2,652-word summary · 12 min read
Clockwork Princess
Tessa chooses between Jem and Will as Mortmain's clockwork army closes on the London Institute.
3,289-word summary · 15 min read