author of the Harry Potter series.

Binoculared and mistreated Harry Potter learns he is a wizard the day of his eleventh birthday. Not only that, but the giant of a man who reveals it to him also tells him he is quite famous in their world, for defeating the most dangerous Dark wizard ever.

author of The Wardstone Chronicles (aka The Last Apprentice in the US).

Tom Ward, the seventh son of a seventh son, is by birth destined to become the County's Spook's apprentice. The Spook fights against the forces of the dark, who would enslave and feed off of all that is good in this world.

author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, along with its spin-offs: The Kane Chronicles and The Heroes of Olympus.

Percy Jackson learns why he is dyslexic and cannot stay more than a year in the same school: he is Poseidon's demigod son and the monsters of the Underworld just can't stand him being alive.

author of the Twilight Saga.

Clumsy, pale-skinned Bella Swan comes to live with her father in the gloomy town of Forks, where she meets Edward Cullen... the local veggie vamp who would really like to put his diet on the side to have a taste of her blood.