The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe — YALSA Read-alike List

YALSA and Walden Media have selected these books which span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families. This list was prepared for Walden Media by YALSA's 2005 Booklist Taskforce. YALSA is the world leader in selecting books, videos & audiobooks for teens. For more lists of recommended reading, go to www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing (2004)
Sixteen-yearold Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, bluecollar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death. Best Books for Young Adults (YALSA); Books for the Teen Age, NY Public Library
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Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2005)
When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and his brother, David, have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
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Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
Bloomsbury USA (2004)
When Henry Atherton helps Mr. Fogarty clean up around his house, he expects to find a mess and a cranky old man. What he doesn't expect to find is Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, who has escaped the treacherous Faeries of the Night by traveling to the human world through a portal powered by trapped lightning. Enlisting the help of his sister, Holly Blue, and his new friend, Henry, Pyrgus must get back to the Faerie world alive before one of his many enemies gets to him instead.
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The Purple Emperor: Sequel to Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
Bloomsbury USA (2004)
Henry Atherton, his faerie prince friend Pyrgus, and Pyrgus' fearless sister, Holly Blue, return in this fantastic adventure to save the Faerie Realm from the evil Hairstreak and his henchmen, Chalkhill and Brimstone. With the help of forest faeries, some silk mistresses, a sewer-dwelling creature of unknown dimensions, and additional creatures magical and otherwise, the three intrepid young friends find their way from exile to the home they all would die to preserve and protect.
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Signet Classics (2000)
When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole to find a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. That is where her fantastical adventures begin. She will experience extraordinary changes in size, swim in a pool of her own tears and attend the very maddest of tea parties. Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met before. The violent Queen, the Lachrymose Mock Turtle, the laconic Cheshire Cat and the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, each as surprising and crazy as the next.
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Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Scholastic, Inc. (2005)
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret—he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One day, a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character and what does he want? Suddenly, Meggie is involved in a breathless game of escape and intrigue as her father's life is put in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?
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Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
Scholastic, Inc. (2005)
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Although a year has passed, Meggie is always thinking of "Inkheart," the book whose characters came to life. But the fire-eater Dustfinger, desperately needs to return to the tale. When he finds Orpheus, a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and dives into the medieval world of the past. Worried, Farid goes in search of Meggie and both end up caught inside the book.
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Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Random House Books for Young Readers (1971)
Milo is almost always bored, until the day he drives a toy car through a tollbooth and into a strange land which has lost all rhyme and reason, where a talking watchdog (with a real watch) is his guide on a quest to end the war between words and numbers.
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Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Children (2000)
When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander Empire, where her older brother is stationed. Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. The king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their bad feelings aside to fight a common enemy, the Northerners. Harry will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery. 1983 Newbery Honor Book; Best Young Adults Books citation, 1982
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The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Children (2000)
Aerin's story is just beginning as she strives to become the hero who would claim the Blue Sword. Aerlin is the only child of the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the Damarians cannot trust her. But Aerlin's destiny is greater than her father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon, and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It is he who at least tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage, Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength of Damar. 1985 Newbery Medal; Notable Book citation (ALA)
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