Dogsbody is brilliant. As is Power of Three, and yes you should read Fire & Hemlock. ^__^

It’s a story of lost memories, growing-up, and the awakening of the self. It’s a story that I can come back to again, and again, [[and each time,]] and each time come away with a little more. Just like the urns[,] in the garden of the big house where Polly first stumbles upon and steals the fire and hemlock picture, which can be turned to read something different from each direction: Now Here, Where Now, Nowhere – so the book conjures up something different with each reading.

Diana Wynne Jones[,] is prolific, having penned over forty books, both for young children[,] and older teenagers, and yet the line between the two is often as thin as the line between the worlds that she creates. Witch Week[,] has to be the ultimate forerunner to Harry Potter in the school for magic stakes, whilst the story of Polly, Tom Lynn, remains an inspiration in ‘real-world’ fantasy.