Fantastic Journeys Book Bundle, curated by PS 116's newest neighbor, the New York Review of Books.

We could all use a bit of magic in our lives, and there's no shortage of it in these eight books-from traveling through time to flying on broomsticks.

Bundle includes 8 paperbacks, recommended for ages 8-14:

• In Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes, a '50s schoolgirl wakes up in 1918.
• The bookish heroine of Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time, meanwhile, is transported back to the time of Mary, Queen of Scots-and can't help but try to save the doomed queen.
• In Mary Chase's Loretta Mason Potts, a straightlaced ten-year-old has his world upended when he meets his impish older sister, who soon leads him into a fantasyland hidden in a bedroom closet.
• Two siblings escape the mysterious All Wishes Town in Maria Gripe's curious fairytale The Glassblower's Children.
• In Mistress Masham's Repose, by T. H. White of The Sword and the Stone fame, an orphaned girl fights to protect a secret island full of tiny people: the Lilliputians of Gulliver's Travels.
• Cat lovers will rejoice in Barbara Sleigh's Carbonel, the story of a young girl who discovers the broom and feline friend she picked up at the market are enchanted.
• In Nancy Willard's The Adventures of Anatole, the hero's whose orange tabby Plumpet never leaves his side, no matter what strange enchantments they encounter.
• And in Eric Linklater's madcap The Wind on the Moon, two mischievous sisters embark on a quest to save their army major father, with the help of a few talking animals.