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- Boggart
series3 books1993
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Susan Cooper's Boggart series begins with the 1993 novel The Boggart, nominated for a Young Reader's Choice Award, and continues across three further books including The Boggart and the Monster and A Box of Boggarts. Cooper, best known for The Dark Is Rising sequence, writes here in a lighter fantasy-adventure register.
- The Secret of Platform 13
series2 books1994
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Eva Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) follows a rescue party of three magical misfits -- a giant, a wizard, and a young hag named Odge -- who cross from a hidden magical island to King's Cross Station's Platform 13 to recover an infant prince kidnapped as a baby and raised, unaware of his heritage, in the ordinary world. A 2019 sequel, Beyond Platform 13, was written by Sibéal Pounder after Ibbotson's death, continuing the story for new readers.
- Meredith Gentry
series10 books2000
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The Merry Gentry series is a series of urban fantasy novels by New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. The series is told through the lens of the titular character Meredith "Merry" Gentry, a faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries exist and are known to the general public. The first book in the series, A Kiss of Shadows, was released by Del Rey on October 3, 2000. There are currently nine books in the series.
- Wicked Lovely
series17 books2007
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Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely opens a YA urban-fantasy series about Aislinn, a teenage girl who has always been able to see faeries and has spent her life following her grandmother's rules to avoid their notice - until Keenan, the Summer King, decides she is meant to be his queen. Later books widen out to other faerie courts and other narrators drawn into the same modern-day faerie politics layered invisibly over ordinary life. It helped kick off the mid-2000s wave of YA faerie romance.
- What-the-Dickens
Gregory Maguirestandalone novel2007
similar byfaeour worldcontemporarywhimsicalfantasy
A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It's the story of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee who is working as an Agent of Change - trading coins for teeth - and learns that there is a dutiful tribe of skibbereen (call them tooth fairies) to which he hopes to belong. As his tale of discovery unfolds, however, both What-the- Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and less sure than they ever imagined.
- Artemis Fowl
series15 books2001
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Artemis Fowl is a series of eleven fantasy novels by Irish author Eoin Colfer, revolving around various members of the Fowl family. The first cycle, the Artemis Fowl series, consists of eight books, and the second cycle, The Fowl Twins series, is a trilogy. Both releases have received commercial success and positive critical reception in the children's literature genre, and also originated graphic novel adaptations. As of 2013, the novels have sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and are one of the best-selling series of all time. In 2010, Artemis Fowl was voted by readers as their favorite Puffin Books title of all time.
- Paranormalcy
series3 books2010
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Paranormalcy is a series of young adult urban fantasy novels by American author Kiersten White, beginning with the entry of the same name. The story focuses on a girl named Evie, a member of a special international police force assigned to paranormal cases. As the tale progresses, Evie's professional duties begin to conflict with her growing desire for a normal life.
- Darkness (Stacey Marie Brown)
series6 books2013
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Stacey Marie Brown's Darkness series follows Ember Brycin, who begins seeing monstrous creatures that shouldn't exist after witnessing her mother's murder and is committed to a facility for troubled teens, where a mysterious biker named Eli Dragen draws her into a hidden supernatural underworld hunting her as prey. The four core novels follow Ember's fight to survive that world, with a fifth book, West, extending the story further.
- The Beautiful
series4 books2019
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The Beautiful is Renee Ahdieh's gothic fantasy quartet set in nineteenth-century New Orleans: The Beautiful (2019), The Damned, The Righteous and The Ruined. It follows a young seamstress drawn into the city's hidden supernatural society after a string of murders among her adopted family, mixing court intrigue with vampire-adjacent gothic horror. It is a complete four-book arc.
- Alderley
series4 books1960
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Alan Garner's Alderley books begin with The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and The Moon of Gomrath (1963), children's fantasies set around the real Cheshire hill of Alderley Edge and drawn from its local legends. Garner returned to the same setting and characters decades later in Boneland (2012), a far darker novel for adults in which the now-grown Colin, afflicted with amnesia covering his entire childhood, tries to piece together what really happened to him and his sister. The three books span most of Garner's writing life rather than forming one continuous trilogy.
- Peter Pan Universe
universe112 books1902
Start herePeter Pan · Start here
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Second star to the right, and straight on till morning — and there it is, the island that every child dreams once and then, growing up, contrives to forget. Neverland: mermaids in the lagoon, a ticking crocodile with a clock in its belly, a pirate nursing his severed hand, and above it all the boy who will not grow up, forever flying, forever heartless in the lovely careless way that only children are. It begins with J. M. Barrie — the 1904 stage play, the chapters of Kensington Gardens, and the novel Peter and Wendy that fixed Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Hook and the Lost Boys in place. From that small window a wide world has flown. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson supply the how-it-all-began in their Starcatchers books, chasing falling starstuff aboard a doomed ship to explain why one orphan came to fly and never age. A whole bright shelf tends Tinker Bell's Pixie Hollow — the Disney Fairies and Fairy Haven tales, Kiki Thorpe's Never Girls — while Heidi Schulz hands the wheel to Hook's own daughter, and stranger, dimmer corners carry the island into far darker weather. Many hands, one archipelago; no single map governs them all. What sets it apart is the sweetness with a blade in it — wonder shadowed always by the ache of leaving, of mothers who keep the window open and children who fly home too late. Newcomers should begin where it began, with Barrie's Peter and Wendy, then, for the origin, take the Starcatchers books in their own order. The rest of Neverland waits, as it always does, for whoever still remembers how to reach it.
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaimanstandalone novel2013
similar byfaeour worldcontemporaryfantasy
A seven year old farm boy becomes friends with an eleven year old neighbor girl, who he discovers is ancient and powerful and intervenes when a nonhuman entity attempts to make a home in earthly reality.
- Spiderwick
universe17 books2003
Start hereSpiderwick Chronicles · Start here
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Do not read this book. So warns the note bound into Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You — which is exactly why Jared Grace opens it, and why the hidden world opens onto him. Move into a crumbling family estate with your mother, your twin brother, and your fencing-champion sister, and you may find the walls already occupied: a testy house brownie, goblins with a taste for cats, and an ogre named Mulgarath who wants the Guide for himself. Holly Black writes and Tony DiTerlizzi draws this small, densely illustrated world across two linked cycles. The Spiderwick Chronicles runs five slim volumes — The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda's Secret, The Ironwood Tree, and The Wrath of Mulgarath — a single mounting emergency told at a breathless clip. Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles carries the danger south to swampy Florida across three more books, where new children meet giants, nixies, and a wyrm stirring underground. The companion Field Guide itself catalogues every sprite and troll in loving naturalist detail. The pleasure here is the specimen-collector's: faerie treated as a taxonomy to be sketched, labelled, and survived, cozy domestic scale shot through with real teeth. Begin with The Field Guide and read straight through in publication order — the five originals first, then the Beyond trilogy. Slender enough to finish in an afternoon, sharp enough to send you checking the cupboard afterward.
- Little People of Another Land
series2 books1991
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Charles de Lint's The Little Country follows Janey Little, a Cornish folk musician who discovers an unpublished manuscript by her late grandfather that turns out to hold real, dangerous magic tied to the village's hidden history. The book is structured around a story within a story, alternating between Janey's present and the manuscript's own fantastical narrative. It's one of de Lint's rare forays outside his usual Newford urban-fantasy setting.
