Inkheart

'Inkheart (original title: Tintenherz) is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkworld trilogy.
Inkheart follows the adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Meggie Folchart whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (Mo), has an unusual ability; when he reads aloud, he can bring characters and items from books into the real world. When Meggie was young Mo read a book called Inkheart, causing Meggie's mother to vanish into the book and allowing Capricorn and his men to escape into the real world. Meggie and Mo's adventure in Inkheart takes them throughout Europe, particularly Italy, and brings them into contact with many unusual characters. The sequel, Inkspell, was released on October 1, 2005, and the third book in the trilogy, Inkdeath was released on September 28, 2007 in Germany. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke: Mortimer (Mo) Folchart is a bookbinder and has the rare gift of reading things and characters out and into books while reading aloud; however, he does not have control over what goes in or out. One night, he reads a book called Inkheart to his wife, Resa. Mo accidentally read Resa into Inkheart and reads characters out of Inkheart (Capricorn, Basta, Dustfinger, and his marten Gwin. Meggie, (3 at the time) has no recollection of this.
Nine years later, Meggie sees someone waiting for Mo, where they live. She informs Mo, who lets the stranger in. The "stranger" stays for a long time. Meggie eavesdrops and thinks that Dustfinger/the stranger is warning Mo about something.
The next morning, Meggie is woken up by her father. He tells her that they were going to see her aunt Elinor, her mother's aunt. Elinor doesn't like children much but Mo told her that she and her aunt would get along well because she too has a vast love of books. After breakfast, Meggie goes into her room to pack a few books to bring with her and discovers Inkheart, the book in brown paper binding her father refused to talk about. When Meggie grows irritated that her father insisted on keeping her in the dark, Dustfinger describes Capricorn as an evil sadist.
One night, Dustfinger persuades Elinor to turn off her burglar alarm so that he can show Meggie his fire eating skills. That same night, Mo and a book are kidnapped by Capricorn's men (including Basta) who take Mo to Capricorn's village, a little town in Italy. Meggie becomes furious when she discovers that Elinor stole the real book just to browse through it and now Mo has been captured with the wrong one. Dustfinger then takes Elinor, Meggie and the real book to Capricorn's village. They arrive and meet Basta for the first time and Capricorn's mother Mortola. Just after their arrival, Meggie realizes that Dustfinger had told Capricorn of their whereabouts and feels instant hatred for trusting him.
Capricorn wants Mo to read out treasure from books. While reading, Mo accidentally reads out a young boy called Farid from the book One Thousand and One Nights. Meanwhile, Dustfinger rescues Mo, Elinor, Meggie and Farid. Farid develops a liking for Meggie.
Now that they have escaped, Elinor tracks down the author of Inkheart (Fenoglio) for Mo, who wants to see if he has any more copies of it. However, Fenoglio doesn't have a copy, his only copy was stolen. He is very interested to hear about Dustfinger, and says that he killed him off in the book . Meggie is horrified and so is Dustfinger.
Elinor returns home to her house only to find no books on their shelves; they are all trampled on the floor. She finds no books in her library at all, only a stone-dead rooster hanging from the ceiling: Capricorn's mark. She looks out of the single open window and finds a pile of ashes, the humble remains of her most prized books. She falls to her knees and weeps.
Meanwhile, Mo goes shopping and Meggie and Fenoglio are accidentally betrayed by Pippo (Fenoglio's eldest grandson, renowned for picking the chocolate chips out of cakes) and captured by Basta and Flatnose. As prisoner, Meggie discovers that she has the gift of reading characters out of books. . Basta finds out when he sees Tinkerbell and Capricorn decides to make her read out his "pet", The Shadow. Mo, Elinor, Farid and Dustfinger plan on saving Meggie. Meggie meanwhile finds a mute maid of Mortola's called Resa who she believes is her mother, apparently read out by Darius. With the help of Fenoglio's writing, Meggie reads out the Shadow and makes him kill Capricorn and most of his men, excluding Basta. However, unfortunately because of the exchanging rule, Fenoglio is read into Inkheart in place of the Shadow. Basta and Mortola escape.
In the end, Dustfinger disappears with Farid and the only copy of Inkheart left, in search of someone to read him back. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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