More Enchantment for Young Readers

Hungry for more Harry Potter-type reading? Elizabeth Devereaux, contributing editor on children’s literature for Publisher’s Weekly, suggests a few books to tide readers over:

* “Charmed Life” by Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins, $6). Slighted by a master enchanter, Gwendolyn, the most promising witch on Coven Street, brews up some trouble.

* “The Dark Is Rising” series: “Silver on the Tree,” “The Grey King,” “Greenwitch,” “The Dark Is Rising” and “Over Sea, Under Stone” by Susan Cooper (Aladdin Paperbacks, $25). On his 11th birthday, Will Stanton learns he is the last of the Old Ones and sets out on a journey to find the six magical signs that will help him triumph over evil.

* “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman (Del Rey, $7). Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan, lives in a world where all individuals have a personal “daemon”--a manifestation of their soul in animal form.

* “Skellig” by David Almond (Delacorte, $16). When Michael moves with his family into a dilapidated house, he discovers Skellig--a man-owl-angel--lying motionless in his garage.

* “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase” by Joan Aiken (Yearling Books, $5). Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia run away from their evil governess with a friend and his geese.