Igraine The Brave - Cornelia Funke
Igraine is the daughter of two magicians and her older brother, Albert, is training to be a magician is as well. Igraine, however, does not want to do magic. Igraine plans of one day being a Knight.On her 12th birthday Igraine gets a magical suit of armor from her parents. But, while making her birthday gift they were somehow turned into pigs.If that wasn't bad enough, the castle next to them is taken over by Osmond the Greedy and he is planning on taking the magical books from her parents. Albert has to find a way to defend the castle while their parents figure out how to turn themselves human again. That leaves Igraine the only one who can go and get the ingredient for her parents to be human again.This was a very nice, light-hearted story that I think could be enjoyed by anyone. I liked all the characters, Igraine and The Sorrowful Knight were great, I even liked Igraine's cat too. This book is just a lot of fun to read and I really liked it.