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Inkheart

I love these books!  Cornelia Funke brings the Inkworld to life in the fabulous Inkheart Trilogy.  In the first book, Inkheart, Meggie Folchart and her father Mortimer - known as Mo, or to some as Silvertongue, are visited by a mysterious figure, who somehow knows Mo.  But Meggie has never seen the strange man before.  Who is he?  And how does he know her father.  Eavesdropping in on their conversation, Meggie discovers that the stranger's name is Dustfinger, and he has come to warn her father about a man named Capricorn.  Mo packs up and, along with Meggie and Dustfinger, leaves their little house to, as he says, visit Meggie's aunt.  Meggie refuses to go until she knows why.  And that's when she learns about the Inkworld.  Since her father won't tell her, she learns from Dustfinger how Mo read Dustfinger, Capricorn, and one of Capricorn's henchmen named Basta, out of a book called Inkheart.  Mo has the power to read people and objects out of books.  And now Capric