AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Search for the Red Dragon

James A. Owen · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Fire Chronicle

John Stephens

There are three orphans who go through many adventures, trying to find all the magical books in the Books of Beginning. In the first book, " The Emerald Atlas" Kate finds the Atlas through many adventures with the countess (an evil witch), Gabriel (the giant) Screechers, and dwarfs. In the beginning of this book, they are sent by Dr. Pym back to the Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigib

Magical BooksTime TravelAdventureMiddle Grade
❤️

The Dragon of the Month Club

Iain Reading · 236 pages

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

The 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),

Magical BooksBookishAdventureMiddle Grade
❤️
Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

Storybound

Marissa Burt · 406 pages

Shy, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is suddenly transported by a mysterious book into the Land of Story, where characters from books hope to be cast into a tale of their own, and Una attends the Perrault Academy while trying to discover why she is there.

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

The Great Good Thing

Roderick Townley · 216 pages

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

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

Magical BooksBookishAdventureMiddle Grade
❤️

The Island of Dr. Libris

Chris Grabenstein · 249 pages

What if your favorite characters came to life? Billy’s spending the summer in a lakeside cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there’s Dr. Libris’s private bookcase. Whenever Billy opens the books inside, he can hear sounds coming from the island in the middle of the lake. The clash of swords. The twang of arrow

Magical BooksBookishAdventureMiddle Grade
❤️

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"--

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

Knights of the Kitchen Table

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 55 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

Magical BooksMiddle GradeTime TravelAdventure
❤️

The City of Dreaming Books

Walter Moers · 464 pages

Optimus Yarnspinner, a young Zamonian writer, inherits very little from his beloved godfather apart from an unpublished short story by an unknown author. This manuscript proves to be such a superb piece of writing that he can't resist the temptation to investigate the mystery surrounding the author's identity. The trail takes him to the City of Dreaming Books. After falling under the spell of thi

Magical BooksBookishAdventureFantasy
❤️

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.

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeAdventure
❤️

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

Magical BooksBookishTime TravelFantasy
🙂

Shadow of Night

Deborah Harkness · 592 pages

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and

Magical BooksBookishTime TravelFantasy
🙂

The Accidental Keyhand

Jen Swann Downey · 377 pages

BookishTime TravelMiddle GradeAdventure
🙂

The Knight at Dawn

Mary Pope Osborne · 66 pages

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

Magical BooksTime TravelAdventureMiddle Grade
🙂

The Magician

Michael Scott

Magical BooksAdventureFantasyMiddle Grade
🙂

Endymion Spring

Matthew Skelton · 416 pages

Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good, or for evil ...A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge ...A young boy without a voice – whose five-hundred-year-old story is about to explode in the twenty-first century . . .Set in present-day Oxford and Germany at the dawn of printing, one magical book sets two boys' worlds alight – bringing them unimaginable danger, excite

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeFantasy
🙂

The Unwritten, Vol. 11: Apocalypse

Mike Carey · 176 pages

Magical BooksBookishFantasySeries
🙂

The Anybodies

N.E. Bode

Magical BooksBookishMiddle GradeFantasy
🙂

The Grimm Legacy

Polly Shulman · 325 pages

Magical BooksMiddle GradeAdventureFantasy
🙂

Sorcery of Thorns

Margaret Rogerson · 456 pages

Magical BooksBookishFantasyAdventure
🙂

The Unwritten, Vol. 5: On to Genesis

Mike Carey, Peter Gross

Armed with his father's journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey across the United States that also takes him into the past - to the Golden Age of a new artistic medium and the birth of a new type of hero. But following in Wilson's footsteps creates dangerous echoes.

Magical BooksBookishFantasySeries
🙂

The Hounds of the Mórrígan

Pat O'Shea · 472 pages

When a ten-year-old boy finds an old book of magic in a bookshop in Ireland, the forces of good and evil gather to do battle over it.

Magical BooksAdventureMiddle GradeFantasy
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗