If you liked Harry Potter...

Contributor's Form (list #226)

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• Book of Three series - Lloyd Alexander
• Bruce Coville's books about dragons (Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher)
• Castle in the Attic and The battle for the Castle by Elizabeth Winthrop
• Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
• Ghosts stories by Betty Ren Wright
• Goosebumps series
• Hero and the Crown, robin McKinley
• Hobby, Passager, and Merlin by Jane Yolen
• Holes by Sacher,
• I am Mordred by Nancy Springer
• Jane Yolen books, her series on Arthur perhaps
• Jennifer Murdley's Toad by Bruce Coville
• King Arthur and the stories of his knights and Merlin (Yolen has a whole series)
• Lloyd Alexander's books
• Magic Ring, Coville
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Matilda_ by Roald Dahl. I know it's not just like Harry Potter, but I think readers will enjoy both stories.
• Pyrdain Chronicles
• Redwall series, Brian Jacques
• Robin Hood by Pyle (or an adaptation or novels based on the tales such as The Forest Wife by Tomlinson)
• Scary Stories series, Schawartz
• So You Want To Be a Wizard by Duane (Dwain?),
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Backyard Dragon by Sterman
• The Bailey school Kids and The Bailey School Monsters - Debbie Daddey
• The Boggart and The Boggart and the Monster by Cooper
• The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
• The Dark Thirty, McKissack.
• The Door in the Wall by marguerite De Angeli
• The Fairy Rebel by Lynn Reid Banks
• The Faraway Mountain by Reid-Banks
• The Golden Compass by Pullman.
• The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
• The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
• The Hounds of the Morgan by Pat O'Shay,
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Pincess Bride by William Goldman
• The Ramsey Scallop by Francis Temple
• The Secret of Platform 13_, by Ibbotson, and it reminded me of the Harry Potter books.
• The Secret Platform by Edward Engers,
• The Smugglers,
• The Star War stories
• The Wish Giver (Bill Brittain) and others in the series
• The Wren books by Sherwood Smith. So far there are three in the series -
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
• Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
• Wren to the rescue, Wren's war and Wren's quest.

   

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