Cricket Readers Recommend

The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) is a great fantasy read. It's about the Abhorsens, people who keep the dead from rising and protect the living. In Sabriel, Sabriel is the daughter of the Abhorsen. Once he goes missing, she has to find and destroy a spirit of the greater dead to save the Old Kingdom, a place where Charter Magic (a kind of magic made by using marks and symbols) is strongest. In Lirael, Sabriel has become the queen of the Old Kingdom and Abhorsen. Lirael is the daughter of Clayr, people who can see into the future. But she never gets that power and soon finds out she has a greater gift, and she has to help save the Old Kingdom just like Sabriel, but this time from an invasion by the dead and free magic beings. Free magic is the opposite of Charter. It can be used in any way and it creates horrid creatures. In Abhorsen, "The Destroyer" is freed. "The Destroyer' is an ancient evil -- one that opposes the Royal Family, blocks the Sight of the Clay, and threatens to break the very boundary between Life and Death itself. Lirael must defeat it, and she has only just become the Abhorsen-in-training.

I would recomend it to a fantasy reader who wants something a little different than the usual.