Mister Troll's Recommendations

The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (Eleanor Cameron)
SHE (H. Rider Haggard)
The Dark Is Rising (Susan Cooper)
The Golden Compass (Phllip Pullman)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
"Come, Lady Death" (Peter S. Beagle)
The Anvil of Ice (Michael Scott Rohan)
"The Green Hills of Earth" (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
The Riddle-Master of Hed (Patricia McKillip)