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cbaker
Since: Nov, 2015
2016-06-06 19:58:17
Book 1 is either Marco's Millions or The Boxes by William Sleator. They're the same series, though each can be read independently.
The second, unless I miss my guess, is one of the books from The Un Magician series, which has recently been republished as Magic Zero.
raptyr
Since: Sep, 2010
raptyr
Since: Sep, 2010

I have two books I'm looking for: The first is about a brother and a sister who find a parallel world where time moves much more slowly than on Earth, and is accessed by crawling through somewhere. The brother ends up staying in the parallel world to save it (with a giant swing), while his sister stays on earth and grows old.
The second is a part of a series, I believe. The cover had a humanoid dragon on it chained up and kneeling. I don't remember much of the plot, except that the main character was a boy raised on an island, was anti-magic in a world full of magic, and befriended a dragon when dragons were persecuted.