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A graphic novel adaptation of the book in which Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.

After twelve-year-old Oliver recites an ancient Indian magical spell and becomes invisible, he enlists the aid of this classmate, Nicky, and the two of them join forces to undo the damage as well as to help their families and themselves.

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.

Worried about his sister Chloe's comatose state after a riding accident, teenage Rob, in an effort to distract himself, gets a job on a secretive local archeological dig.

When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.

A riot suddenly breaks out in the bargain basement, the well-meaning Paddington has done it again, as his latent talent for trouble continues to create unexpected but hilarious adventure.

Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers.

The Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, see their peaceful existence threatened when the owner of the house announces he is coming from Australia for a visit.

During their vacation from school, English siblings Gerald, Jimmy, and Kathleen, with their friend, Mabel, discover an enchanted ring that makes wishes come true, but with with unexpected consequences.

This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed but solid family fare.

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.

When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned.

In 1854, newly orphaned Maria Merryweather, her governess, and dog arrive at Moonacre Manor, the home of Maria's new guardian, and while she feels welcome and comforted right away, she senses an underlying sadness in the people around her and determines to set things right.