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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFablehaven
Brandon Mull · 351 pages
For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely! Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea that their grandfather is the current c
The Little Water Sprite
Otfried Preussler, Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler · 123 pages
Spirited Away, Volume 1
Hayao Miyazaki, Yuji Oniki, Cindy Davis Hewitt · 172 pages
Cardcaptor Sakura: Master of the Clow, Vol. 3
CLAMP · 186 pages
Yue, the Guardian of the Moon, and Yukito, the human boy he embodies, suffer while Sakura deals with the dangerous presence of Clow Reed.
Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 2
Yuki Midorikawa · 194 pages
Dragon of the Red Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne · 108 pages
Merlin the magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic tree house on another magical and historical adventure.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
L. Frank Baum · 98 pages
Relates Santa's life, from childhood to old age and immortality, mentioning such adventures as those with the friendly Wood-nymphs and the wicked Awgwas.
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi · 142 pages
Seven Wild Sisters
Charles de Lint · 258 pages
Sarah Jane Dillard discovers and helps an injured 'sangman fairy in the Tanglewood Forest, putting herself, her six sisters, and friends Aunt Lillian and the Apple Tree Man in the middle of a fairy feud. Sarah Jane Dillard discovers and helps an injured fairy in the Tanglewood Forest, putting herself and her family in the middle of a fairy feud.
Kiki's Delivery Service
Eiko Kadono
When Kiki turns 13, she follows the witches’ tradition of living in another town for a year, the seaside village of Koriko; translated by Emily Balistrieri. (Ages 8 to 12)
Wildwood
Colin Meloy · 560 pages
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
The Two Princesses of Bamarre
Gail Carson Levine · 248 pages
A kingdom beset by monsters, a disease that weakens and destroys, an epic poem and a hero of long ago, a story of danger and desperation. The Two Princesses of Bamarre couldn't be more different. Princess Addie is fearful and shy. Her deepest wish is for safety. Princess Meryl is bold and brave. Her deepest wish is to save the kingdom of Bamarre. They are sisters, and they mean the world to each o
The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey · 389 pages
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-hai
A Hat Full of Sky
Terry Pratchett · 352 pages
Something is coming after Tiffany ...Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six
Half Magic
Edward Eager · 217 pages
It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and because she and her siblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen. And something *does*: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half her wish comes true. It turns out the coin grants wishes—but only by half, so that you must wish for
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum · 226 pages
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz remains one of the world's most beloved and widely read books. Throughout a century of remarkable change, the popularity of L. Frank Baum's classic tale has endured and grown, embraced by generation after generation of children and the young at heart. To honour the centennial of its publication in 1900, the University Press of Kansas is presenting this special anniversar
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 01
Kiyohiko Azuma, azuma kiyohiko · 224 pages
*sniffle* Yotsuba thinks grown-ups are mean. Daddy plays all kinds of neat games with Yotsuba, but he ALWAYS WINS! Even when Yotsuba TELLS him to be paper in Rock-Paper-Scissors, he doesn't listen! Even then! Yotsuba never, ever wants to be a big meanie grown-up, nuh-uh! But grown-ups get to buy ice cream all by themselves, so ... um ... maybe it's okay to be a grown-up sometimes?