Middle Grade Fantasy Books for Fablehaven Fans

Before Suzanne Collins wrote hunger gamesIt was the Portal Fantasy series! Like Kendra and Seth, Gregor and his younger sister, a missing family member, are lost in a magical place. In this case, a hole behind the washing machine in their building in NYC leads them to a land where the creatures live alongside humans, and Gregor may be the key to stopping an underworld war.

If you liked the parts about the mysterious estate and fairies in Fablehaven, you’ll enjoy this series about the three Grace siblings. After moving into her old aunt’s dilapidated mansion, she finds a journal in the attic that reveals an incredible world of magic and fairies that exists alongside their own world.

This winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award also involves the death of a relative. While mourning the death of his beloved grandmother in Ghana, Kwame is accidentally trapped in a magical whirlpool. There, he finds his grandmother alive (and of the same age as him), and decides to fight the gods of the underworld after learning of their plans to destroy the world above.

This thrilling novel is full of mythical creatures that the young hero didn’t know existed! Kiki Kalira has anxiety, and she spends her time drawing creatures from Indian myths to keep calm. But he realizes that the creatures he has created are real when they come to life on the page. Kiki gets caught up in their magical world and realizes that it is her responsibility to fight the country’s evil god to protect the kingdom.

Read this fascinating story for another great story about family ties and secret legacies. Once again, Leonora Logroño is told that she is too young to help her family prepare sweets for the annual Día de los Muertos celebration. Fed up with being treated like the baby of the family, Leonora sneaks into the bakery anyway and discovers that all of her family members are brujas! Armed with the knowledge that she too is a witch, Leonora decides to cast a spell to help a friend, but it backfires.

i like grandfather FablehavenThis award-winning family guards a secret about mythical creatures in the human world. While visiting his grandfather, Christopher discovers a magical, hidden lake beneath which lies an archipelago, populated by unusual creatures. Her excitement is short-lived when she discovers that creatures are dying because magic is disappearing from their world. So with the help of an unusual girl named Mal, Christopher sets out to find and stop the problem.

And finally, instead of a novel about protecting and caring for magical creatures, as they do in Fablehaven, how about a novel where the children are turn into Magical creatures? That’s what happens in this dynamic series! Plum can’t wait to go to Guardian Academy and learn how to transform into a magical beast. But once she gets there, she has difficulty learning the tricks of the transformation, and worries that she will never be able to become the guardian of her world.