The Inkheard series are sooo extremely good. I love these books (there are two out now but the third comes out...sometime....in the near future)
Anyways here is a summary that I copied from wikipedia because I am too lazy to write my own...and I might miss something imporant if i do...

In the story of Inkheart, there is a story within a story: Mo originally brought three of Inkheart's characters to life while reading aloud from a novel which is also called Inkheart - Basta, Capricorn, Dustfinger, and Dustfinger's pet marten, Gwin. Dustfinger, a fire eater, desperately wants to return to the world of the fictional novel; Capricorn, the villain of both the "real" and "imaginary" stories, wants Mo (and later, Meggie, who shares her father's unusual gift) to summon an evil monster forged from the ashes of the murdered known as the Shadow, from the fictional novel; and Basta is Capricorn's right-hand man who loves his knife. There is a dramatic twist when one day, 9 years after the characters pop out, Dustfinger and Gwin show up on Meggie and Mo's doorstep begging Mo to send him back into the world of inkheart. He will do whatever it takes to get back to the land he loves, maybe even betray Mo and Meggie to Capricorn...


Oh and the author is Cornelia Funke

I really loved these books! I really can't wait to read the third one!

Inkdeath has come out.....Hazel said.