Books like The Golden Compass
Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon set out from Oxford for the far North to rescue kidnapped children, and stumble into a conspiracy about a mysterious substance called Dust.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
An orphaned boy raised under a staircase learns on his eleventh birthday that he is a wizard, and takes a train to a Scottish school that has been waiting for him.
La Belle Sauvage
Malcolm Polstead, eleven, the son of an innkeeper near Oxford, comes to care about a baby called Lyra, sheltered by the nuns across the river, and when a great flood comes he takes her in his canoe, La Belle Sauvage, to keep her from those who want her.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.
His Majesty's Dragon
During the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy captain Will Laurence captures a French ship carrying a dragon egg, and when it hatches and the dragon chooses him, he must leave the sea for Britain's aerial corps.
Sabriel
Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.
A Darker Shade of Magic
Kell, one of the last magicians who can travel between parallel Londons, Grey, Red, White and long-dead Black, smuggles objects between them, until a dangerous artefact and a thief named Lila Bard draw him into a deadly plot.
Children of Blood and Bone
Magic vanished from Orïsha the night the king's soldiers killed the maji, Zélie Adebola's mother among them, and now Zélie, her brother and a runaway princess have one chance to bring it back before the crown prince hunts them down.
The Lightning Thief
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, a troubled kid with dyslexia and ADHD, learns that the Greek gods are real and that he is the son of one of them, and he has ten days to find Zeus's stolen lightning bolt and stop a war among the gods.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer, twelve, whose actress mother is dying in an off-season New Hampshire resort hotel, sets out across America and the Territories, a world alongside ours, to find the talisman that could save her.
The Beast Player
Elin's mother cares for the giant water serpents that are the backbone of the kingdom's army, and when several die on her watch she is sentenced to death; Elin, alone, finds she can do what no one else can with the realm's beasts.
Eragon
Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Balsa, a thirty-year-old spear-wielding bodyguard, saves the young prince Chagum from drowning and is hired to protect him from his own father's assassins, who believe the spirit egg the boy carries must be destroyed.