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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

You'll enjoy these titles because: They feature stories that blend magic and adventure with coming-of-age themes.

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  • Trapped in a world where magic is powerful and dreams are real, Cole Randolph can barely remember what life was like back in Arizona. Now he and his friends are pushed to the limit as they make one final attempt to restore magic to the Outskirts.…
    Book, 2018New York : Aladdin, 2018. — J MUL
  • As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom. The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happiest in the…
    Book, 2020New York, New York : Scholastic Inc., 2020 — J ROW
  • Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding…
    Book, 2019Los Angeles : Disney-Hyperion, 2019. — ACQ1094093
  • In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
    Book, 2005New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. — YP PAO
  • In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and…
    Book, 2011New York : Aladdin, 2011. — J MCM
  • Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The reason? Sophie’s a Telepath, someone who can…
    Book, 2013New York : Aladdin, 2013. — J MES
  • Because Dragonwatch, an ancient group of wizards, enchantresses, and dragon slayers, is crumbling, an uprising of dragons threatens to destroy the magical preserves as well as overrun the nonmagical world.
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Aladdin, 2018. — J MUL
  • When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to…
    Book, 2023Montclair, New Jersey : Levine Querido, 2023. — J HIG
  • When Flaxfield the great wizard dies, his apprentice Sam is left without a master. Sam has great power - but he doesn't know it yet. All he knows is that he needs a new master if he wants to finish his education in magic.With his dragon Starback at…
    Book, 2012New York : Bloomsbury, 2012. — J FOR
  • "No one seems very worried that your Grandmother Dolores has vanished from her job as innkeeper in the middle of the Wisconsin woods. That is until your parents suddenly and mysteriously insist on moving the family to take over the inn while she's…
    Book, 2011New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011. — J PAT
  • "Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious prophecy they have…
    Book, 2013New York : Scholastic Inc., 2013. — J SUT
  • Beyonders: 

    a World Without Heroes

    Mull, Brandon, 1974-
    Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
    Book, 2011New York : Aladdin, 2011. — J MUL
  • Nevermoor:

    The Trials of Morrigan Crow

    Townsend, Jessica, 1985-
    "A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--Provided by publisher.
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — J TOW
  • "ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES?" When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside…
    Book, 2007New York : Megan Tingley Books, 2007. — J STE
  • Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods, where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods
    Book, 2006New York : Miramax Books, 2006, c2005. — J RIO
  • Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
    Book, 1994New York : HarperTrophy, 1994, c1978. — J LEW
  • Young wizard prince Xar, who has no magic, and warrior princess Wish, an outcast, team up on an adventure that brings them to witches long believed to be extinct.
    Book, 2017London : Hodder Children's Books, 2017. — J COW
  • Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
    Book, 2018Los Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2018. — J CHO
  • "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who…
    Book, 2016Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. — J BAR
  • When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the great Caesar…
    Book, 2015New York : Scholastic Press, 2015. — J NIE