These look great, I will have to look them up! Heh, interestingly I kept coming up with DWJ books without moms -- the most recent few I've (re)read didn't have them. ahaha, I saw your post about Witch and that did sound like something I would like quite a bit!

I have read Dragonsbane, and I remember liking it, but I think I was probably too young and the parental dilemmas probably were more boring than interesting at the time :)