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Diana Wynne Jones entire output should be mandatory reading for any child, the woman has been creating subtle, complex and massively enjoyable universes for decades (and her writing style is light years ahead of JK Rowling); The Chrestomanci series, the marvellous "Archer's Goon", featuring a family of modern urban "elementals" (One "farms" (Their term for their power and responsibility) finance, another law and order, another crime, another the past, yet another music, another sewers, and so on), The Ogre Downstairs (A stepfather accidentally buys his stepkids a chemistry set like no other, well, more of an ALchemistry set) and many more.