The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The four Pevensie children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy—are evacuated to the country house of a professor during the Blitz. There they discover a magic wardrobe that allows them to pass into Narnia, a world inhabited by talking animals and ruled by the White Witch. Since coming into power, the Witch has held Narnia in an eternal winter, never permitting Christmas or spring; all of Narnia has been waiting for the return of Aslan, the Lion and Lord of Narnia, to overcome the Witch and reawaken the land. Lucy befriends a faun, Mr. Tumnus, who is summarily arrested by the Witch for conspiring with a human; unbeknownst to the children, she has demanded that any humans be brought to her at once, for there is a prophecy that when four humans take the empty thrones at Cair Paravel, evil will be banished from Narnia.

Lexile: 940L