The Firework-maker's Daughter vs Upside Down Magic: Which Should You Read?

The Firework-maker's Daughter Philip Pullman · 1995 ★★★★☆ 4.0 112 pages · ≈ 2 h 04 m · Light

“A thousand miles ago, in a country east of the jungle and south of the mountains, there lived a firework-maker called Lalchand and his daughter, Lila.”

In a country far to the east, Chulak and his talking white elephant Hamlet help Lila seek the Royal Sulphur from the sacred volcano so that she can become a master maker of fireworks like her father.

Upside Down Magic Sarah Mlynowski · 2015 ★★★★☆ 3.6 208 pages · ≈ 3 h 51 m · Light

Nory, Elliott, Andres, and Bax are just four of the students in Dunwiddle Magic School s Upside-Down Magic class. In their classroom, lessons are unconventional, students are unpredictable, and magic has a tendency to…