Rowan from Rin and the Deltora Quest series are both written by Emily Rodda, which I read and enjoyed while I waited for J.K. Rowling to publish her Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Emily Rodda is a pseudonym of Jennifer Rowe’s and another pseudonym she has is Mary-Anne Dickinson.

As she publishes children’s books under her pseudonyms and uses her own name for her writing for adults as she also writes crime stories.

Rowan of Rin

Rowan and the Travellers

Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal

Rowan and the Zebak

Rowan of the Bukshah

Deltora Quest 1: Forrest of Silence

Deltora Quest 1: Lake of Tears

Deltora Quest 1: City of Rats

Deltora Quest 1: Shifting Sands

Detora Quest 1: Dread Mountain

Deltora Quest 1: Maze of the Beast

Deltora Quest 1: Valley of the Lost

Deltora Quest 1: Return to Del

Deltora Quest 2: The Cavern of Fear

Deltora Quest 2: The Isle of Illusion

Deltora Quest 2: The Shadowlands

Deltora Quest 3: Dragon’s Nest

Deltora Quest 3: Shadowgate

Deltora Quest 3: Isle of the Dead

Deltora Quest 3: The Sister of the South

The Glimme