Junior: Authors by last name A-B

Listed are books with the authors last name starting with A and B.

Richard Adams, Joan Aiken and Sophie Anderson

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Fiction 9+
478 pages

Set in the once idyllic rural landscape of the south of England, 'Watership Down' follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the destruction of their home, as they head towards a mysterious promised land.

Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Fiction 9+
181 pages

Even the wolves that surround the great house of Willoughby Chase are not as cruel and merciless as governess Miss Slighcarp. Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia must use all their wits if they are to escape from her evil clutches. 

Sophie Anderson - The House with Chicken Legs

Fiction 9-11
337 pages

Marinka dreams of a normal life, where her house stays somewhere long enough for her to make friends. But her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.

The only people Marinka meets are dead; they disappear when her grandmother, Baba Yaga, guides them through The Gate. Marinka wants to change her destiny, but her house has other ideas.

Sophie Anderson - The Castle of Tangled Magic

Fiction 9+
416 pages

Olia lives with her parents in an old crumbling castle, filled with hidden turrets and secret doorways. When she follows a mysterious cat to one of the castle’s roof domes, she finds herself stepping through one such doorway into a magical land filled with wonders.

But everything is not quite as it seems: the land is under threat from a scheming magician, Chernmor, and the magic is fading away. With the help of an enchanted band of new friends, can Olia find a way to save both her own home and the land of forbidden magic?