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The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
4.0

This is such a huge improvement over the Book of Three. The characters stop bumbling around and make well-reasoned decisions or confident mistakes that lead them to learn from the error of their ways. They make friends and enemies, have exciting adventures and must make moral choices and grow. It's great high fantasy for kids. This book is nothing like the Disney movie of the same name - they basically kept the character names and title and changed everything about the story. The book is much more complex and much more enjoyable!