Helpful Score: 4
If you've got kids old enough to be thoroughly familiar with Harry Potter and other children's/YA fantasy novels that deal with various genre standbys such as prophecies, chosen ones, quests, imperiled worlds, Good vs Evil, etc, then I recommend China Mieville's Un Lun Dun because despite some minor pacing issues, it takes all those cliched standbys and completely subverts them in a most enjoyable way. Plus he makes some points about blindly bowing to authority, prejudice, self-determination, and why it is more important to choose to save the world than to be chosen that kids (or anyone really) can't hear too often.
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