There has never been a magic like Merlin's, and T. A. Barron reveals how the legend was born in his adventure-loving five-book epic featuring the heroic young wizard and his unforgettable band.

Wings of Fire, the sleeping dragon, has awakened, threatening to loose his terrible wrath on all of Fincayra. Only young Merlin, whose magical powers are new and untested, can stop him-though the price may well be the young wizard's life.

Merlin 01 - The Lost Years (1996)

A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Sammy Starling was once a notable villain, but for some years he's been a semi-respectable businessman with two passions: His beautiful young wife and his stamp collection. And now, it seems, he's a victim: Someone has kidnapped Eva Starling and is sending ransom demands in envelopes with rare and extremely valuable stamps. The stamps feature the likeness of the young Queen Victoria, to whom Eva bears a startling resemblance, and they have been rendered worthless. Dead, one might say. The message is not lost on Sammy. What's not lost on Detective Chief Inspector Brock is that Sammy nearly cost Brock his job, back in the day, and took at least one good man's life.

The Boy in the Moon

They are father and son. They communicate in a private language composed entirely of clicking noises. The parent is veteran Globe and Mail feature writer Ian Brown; the child, his young boy Walker, whose abilities are almost unimaginably impaired because of a rare genetic mutation.