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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

by Alan Garner

Ages 10–13 Reading age 11 Novel Set in outdoors and wild places epicspooky

Staying on a Cheshire farm, Colin and Susan find that the stone in her bracelet is wanted badly by things living under Alderley Edge.

A story about children and magical creatures, epic and spooky in tone. We would put it with children of 10–13, and at a reading age of about 11 for reading alone.

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