Chronicles of Chrestomanci
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1) Charmed life
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
Language
English
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Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 2
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English
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The Dukedom of Caprona is a place where music is enchantment and spells are as slippery as spaghetti. The magical business is run by two families - the Montanas and the Petrocchis - and they are deadly rivals. So when all the spells start going wrong, they naturally blame each other.
Chrestomanci suspects an evil enchanter; others say it is a White Devil. Or maybe a different kind of magic is needed to save Caprona...
Diana Wynne Jones is the Godmother...
3) Witch Week
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
Language
English
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Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favorite, featuring Chrestomanci - now a book with extra bits!
someone in this class is a witch
When the note, written in ordinary ballpoint, turns up in the homework books Mr. Crossley is marking, he is very upset. For this is Larwood House, a school for witch-orphans, where witchcraft is utterly forbidden. And yet magic keeps breaking out all over the place - like measles!
The last thing they need...
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 4
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English
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Discovering that he has nine lives and is destined to be the next 'Chrestomanci' is not part of Christopher's plans for the future: he'd much rather play cricket and wander around his secret dream worlds. But he soon finds that destiny is difficult to avoid, and that having more than the usual number of lives is pretty inconvenient – especially when you lose them as easily as he does! Then an evil smuggler, known only as The Wraith, threatens the...
5) Mixed magics
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 5
Language
English
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Glorious rejacket of the story collection set in the worlds of Chrestomanci.
The stories featured in this collection are:
Warlock at the Wheel.
Stealer of Souls.
Carol Oneir's Hundredth Dream.
The Sage of Theare.
Everybody's favourite nine-lifed enchanter makes a guest appearance in each tale. Plus man favourites from the Chrestomanci novels - and a cast of thousands!
With illustrations by Tim Stevens.
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.
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Series
Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
Language
English
Description
No one's sure what's inside the big mauve-speckled egg that Cat Chant found in the attic but when it eventually hatches in Chrestomanci Castle chaos breaks out in the surrounding village.