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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer · 448 pages
Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke · 560 pages
Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing fantasy. Meggie, 12, has had her father to herself since her mother went away when she was young. Mo taught her to read when she was five, and the two share a mutual love of books. Things change after a visit from a scarred man who calls himself Dustfinger and who refers to Mo as Silvertongue. Meggie learns that her father has be
The Dragon of the Month Club
Iain Reading · 236 pages
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde · 374 pages
The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton
The Mad Apprentice
Django Wexler · 343 pages
"Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian"--
The Seeing Stone
Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi
When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible.
House of Secrets
Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini · 528 pages
When Brendan, Cordelia and Nell move to Kristoff House they have no idea that they are about to unleash the dark magic locked within. For the house once belonged to a crazed writer, whos stories have come to life. Literally. Now the Walker kids must battle against deadly pirates, bloodthirsty warriors and a bone-crushing giant. If they fail they will never see their parents again and a power-mad w
Story Thieves
James Riley · 383 pages
Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen -- his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missin
Seven-Day Magic
Edward Eager · 156 pages
A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
Finding Serendipity
Angelica Banks · 281 pages
"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"-- When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog, Baxterr, discover that Tuesday's mother, famous author Ser
Into the Land of the Unicorns
Bruce Coville · 176 pages
Having jumped into the fantasy land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.
The Emerald Atlas
John Stephens
Several years ago, Kate remembers that her mother left her, her sister and her brother in St. Mary's orphanage. Her mother told Kate to always stay with her siblings. So she had. They never stayed in one orphanage for so long. Each orphanage was worse than the other, and Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans, was truly horrible. In the series of events that come after this, th
The Book of Story Beginnings
Kristin Kladstrup · 368 pages
After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle.
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Illustrated
L Frank Baum · 160 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (/ɒz/) is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in May 1900.[1] It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film.The story
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente · 247 pages
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."―Time magazine, on the Fairyland series Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), wh
Bliss
Kathryn Littlewood · 400 pages
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
The Search for the Red Dragon
James A. Owen · 371 pages
Nine years after they came together to defeat the Winter King, John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams and face a new challenge involving the Lost Boys and giants.
Cardcaptor Sakura, Vol. 1
CLAMP · 174 pages
Ten-year-old Sakura discovers a book in her father's library which once contained a deck of magical Clow Cards, but they have escaped while the guardian of the book slept. Now, Sakura, Kero, and Tomoyo undertake a journey to recapture the Clow Cards before they can wreak havoc and destruction.
Abarat
Clive Barker · 489 pages
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wand