Sabriel by Garth Nix #20BOS26-6

There is nothing like an intrepid and self-aware heroine to take us lands away. Sabriel has attended Wyverley College, a boarding school for young ladies in Ancelstierre, since she was five and is now a graduating Sixth Form prefect, having excelled in all the expected coursework along with the less expected subject of magic. Her father is known as the Abhorsen, a powerful necromancer, and unusually has just failed to appear for a visit to his daughter. Somehow he manages to send her a Dead servant bearing his sword and a belt with seven bells, which contain the magic of the Charter. Sabriel realizes this means he must be dead or captured, so sets off from Ancelstierre to find him, crossing the Wall to the dangerous Old Kingdom which seems mostly inhabited by frightened people and corpses that won’t stay dead.Her quest begins with a difficult journey to her father’s house in the depths of winter, over difficult terrain, intermittent dead soldiers, and various assailants along the way.…