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Griffin's Castle

Jenny Nimmo (1994)

SubgenreChildren's Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads3.34

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

AbandonmentIsolation

Hero archetypes

Outcast / Loner

Heroine archetypes

Coming-of-Age Heroine

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Synopsis

After years of having moved around, eleven-year-old Dinah determines to make a huge, dilapidated old mansion into a home for her mother and herself, but the wild beasts she summons from a stone wall to protect her may also imprison her.

Tags

Magical RealismContemporary FantasyDomestic Fantasy