Chronicles of Chrestomanci
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1) Charmed Life
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 1
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At first, orphan Cat Chant isn't jealous of his magically gifted sister Gwendolen. After all, she is the only family he has left. But, then the mysterious sorcerer Chrestomanci adopts them and changes their lives forever. In this book, which won the Guardian Award for Children's books, author Diana Wynne Jones' characters come fully alive as narrator Gerard Doyle takes listeners into a wondrous world.
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 2
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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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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 3
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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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Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives.
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Mixed magics , Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 5
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 6
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Glorious new re-jacket of a Diana Wynne Jones Chrestomanci novel - now a book with extra bits! Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances - well, quite frankly, he is DOOMED. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Stallchester,...
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Chronicles of Chrestomanci volume 7
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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.