If You Like Harry Potter
What to read while you're waiting for the next book...
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- Gregor the
Overlander, by Suzanne Collins.
- When eleven-year-old Gregor and his
two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they
trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and
spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
- Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett.
- A young witch-to-be named Tiffany
teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to
rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from
Fairyland.
- Midnight for Charlie Bone, by Jenny Nimmo.
- Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he
discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.
- The Dalemark Quartet, by Diana Wynne Jones.
- The Dalemark Quartet, a sprawling, epic fantasy, follow four young
people from different times who call up their magic and their gods to
save their war-torn country. Each omnibus edition contains two
complete novels.
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- The Rope Trick,
by Lloyd Alexander.
- Motivated by her quest to learn a legendary rope trick, the
magician Princess Lidi and her troupe embark on a journey through
Renaissance Italy that intertwines adventure, love, and mystery.
- The Wind Singer,
William Nicholson.
- After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth
society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a
tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary
silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and
its people.
(The Wind on Fire trilogy: The Wind Singer,
Slaves of the Mastery, Firesong)
- Mrs. Frisby and the
Rats of NIMH, by Robert O'Brien.
- Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse
visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them
wise and long lived.
- The Thief,
by Megan Whalen Turner.
- Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure
which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt
to steal a precious stone.
(Sequal: The Queen of Attolia)
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- The Dragonslayers,
by Bruce Coville
- A brave squire, an earnest page, and a strong-willed princess set
out, each for individual reasons, to try to slay the dragon created to
carry out a witch's revenge.
- Song in the Silence,
by Elizabeth Kerner
- Lanen Kaelar has always believed in dragons. Now, she has begun
the quest to find them.
- Sandry's Book,
by Tamora Pierce
- Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly
disciplined temple community where they become friends while also
learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially
magic.
(Circle of Magic quartet: Sandry's Book, Tris's
Book, Daja's Book, Briar's Book)
- The Golden Compass,
by Philip Pullman
- Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her
best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of
gruesome experiments in the Far North.
(His Dark
Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The
Amber Spyglass)
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- The Witches,
by Roald Dahl
- A boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches,
together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by
turning them into mice.
- Secret of Platform
13, by Eva Ibbotson
- Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle
fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from
their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son who had
been stolen as an infant.
- Greatest Show Off
Earth, by Margaret Mahy
- Delphinium spends her tenth birthday aboard a traveling space
circus, fighting against the dark forces who are bent on stamping out
fun.
- The Amazing Maurice
and His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett
- A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a
Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are
confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
- Knights of the Kitchen
Table, by Jon Sciezska
- Joe receives a magic book for his birthday present from his uncle.
Joe, Fred and Sam are transported to a time when evil knights, fire-
breathing dragons and vile-smelling giants roamed the land.
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- Singer to the Sea
God, by Vivien Alcock
- When he and his companions flee their island home after the king's
court is turned to stone, Phaidon begins to believe in the gods and
monsters that his uncle has always scorned.
- Bright Shadow,
by Avi
- Having used four of the five wishes she is granted to make on
behalf of the hapless citizens of her country, Morwenna flees the
kingdom to decide what to do with the last wish.
- The Wish Giver,
by Bill Brittain
- When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social
promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young
believers- in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most
unexpected way.
- Ella Enchanted,
by Gail Carson Levine
- In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles
against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to
her.
- The Castle in the
Attic, by Elizabeth Winthrop
- A gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces
William to an adventure involving magic and a personal quest.
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- The Lost Years of
Merlin, by T. A. Barron
- A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes
ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of
fantastic adventures.
(Lost Years of
Merlin epic: The Lost Years of Merlin, The Seven Songs of
Merlin, The Fires of Merlin, The Mirrors of Merlin, The Wings of
Merlin)
- So You Want to Be
a Wizard, by Diane Duane
- Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she
won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on
wizardry which guides her into another dimension.
(Wizardy series: So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep
Wizardry, Hight Wizardy, A Wizard Abroad, The Wizard's Dilema, A
Wizard Alone)
- Howl's Moving Castle,
by Diana Wynne Jones
- Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a
misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice
until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the
castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.
(Sequel: Castle in the
Air)
- A Wizard's Dozen,
edited by Michael Steirs
- Short stories featuring, among others, a werewolf princess, a
water nymph, and a midget giant.
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