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Abhorsen

by Garth Nix

Middle grade · ages 12–16 · grades 7–11 · 780L · 2010

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Why we'd hand it over

A genuinely unsettling dark-fantasy trilogy that respects middle-grade intelligence—Lirael's fear is the point, not a flaw to overcome quickly, and the death magic worldbuilding is baroque and genuinely eerie.

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