Hit the Road, Helen!

10 best books like Hit the Road, Helen! (Kate McMullan): Aru Shah and the Song of Death, The Girl Games, Every Stolen Breath, Birthright, Vol. 1: Homecoming, Birthright, Vol. 3: Allies and Enemies, Breadcrumbs, Lalani of the Distant Sea, Superman: Action Comics, Volume 1: Superman and the Men of Steel, Tonoharu: Part One, Whispering Woods

Aru Shah and the Song of Death

Author

Roshani Chokshi

Aru is only just getting the hang of this whole Pandava thing when the Otherworld goes into full panic mode. The god of love's bow and arrow have gone missing, and the thief isn't playing Cupid. Instead, they're turning people into heartless fighting-machine zombies. If that weren't bad enough, somehow...

The Girl Games

Author	Joan Holub
ISBN	1442449330

The first-ever standalone superspecial in the Goddess Girls series—let the games begin!

Athena, Medusa, Artemis, and Persephone are sick and tired of being left out of the annual boys-only Olympic Games. Their solution? The Girl Games! But as the Goddess Girls work to make their dream...

Every Stolen Breath

Author

Kimberly Gabriel

The Swarm is unrecognizable, untraceable, and unpredictable—random attacks on the streets of Chicago by a mob of crazed teens that leaves death in its wake. It’s been two years since the last attack, but Lia Finch has found clues that reveal the Swarm is ready to claim a new victim.

Lia is...

Birthright, Vol. 1: Homecoming

Author

Joshua Williamson

Alternate cover edition

For the Rhodes family, losing their son was the most devastating thing that could have occurred...but it couldn't prepare them for what happened when he returned. Skybound's newest hit turns fantasy into reality in this all-new series from the creator of Nailbiter...

Birthright, Vol. 3: Allies and Enemies

Author	Joshua Williamson
ISBN	1632156830

Birthright continues to be a consistently good series for Image. Joshua Williamson is earning some fame while currently writing the Justice League vs. Suicide Squad event. Where we last left off our fallen hero Mikey along with his brother Brennan are on the run from the law and seeking out the mysterious...

Breadcrumbs

Author	Anne Ursu
ISBN	0062015052

Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends....

Lalani of the Distant Sea

Author	Erin Entrada Kelly
ISBN	0062747290

There are stories of extraordinary children who are chosen from birth to complete great quests and conquer evil villains.

This is no such story.

Sometimes, you are an ordinary child.

Sometimes, you have to choose yourself.

This is the story of Lalani Sarita, a twelve-year-old...

Superman: Action Comics, Volume 1: Superman and the Men of Steel

Author	Grant Morrison
ISBN	1401235468

DC Comics took a bold step and renumbered the longest-running monthly comic, Action Comics, to #1 for the first time since 1938 as part of the DC Comics—The New 52 event.
With this renumbering comes a new creative team featuring comics legend Grant Morrison and fan-favorite artist Rag Morales....

Tonoharu: Part One

Author	Lars Martinson
ISBN	0980102324

Daniel Wells begins a new life as an assistant junior high school teacher in the rural Japanese village of Tonoharu. Isolated from those around him by cultural and language barriers, he leads a monastic existence, peppered only by his inept pursuit of the company of a fellow American who lives a couple...

Whispering Woods

Author	Clayton Emery
ISBN	0061054186

I liked this book, but not as much as I like other books in the Magic the Gathering realm.

The main thing I did not like in this book, is the un-epicness of the adventure. It seems to me that the struggles overcome by the main characters pale in insignificance to the struggles faced in other fantasy...

Birthright, Vol. 4: Family History

Author

Joshua Williamson

Grandpa Samael makes his mark on this fourth volume of Birthright as the machinations of the mages become clear, and both Mikey and Brennan move forward on their hero's journey while their mother and Rya run afoul of one of the other mages, before everything explodes and goes even more wrong.

Birthright's...

The Mystwick School of Musicraft

Author

Jessica Khoury

Humor and heart shine in this middle grade fantasy about a girl who attends a boarding school to learn how to use music to create magic, perfect for fans of Nevermoor and The School for Good and Evil series.

Amelia Jones always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world’s...

Eternal Warrior, Volume 1: Sword of the Wild

Author	Greg Pak
ISBN	1939346207

Soldier. Guardian. Warrior. Legend. Across ten millennia and a thousand battlefields, Gilad Anni-Padda has traversed the darkest, most mysterious corners of history. But the horror and bloodshed of constant warfare has finally taken its toll on the man myth calls the Eternal Warrior...and he has...

Birthright, Vol. 2: Call to Adventure

Author	Joshua Williamson
ISBN	1632154463

Man oh man, it's hard to find someone to root for in this series.

Everyone seems like a dick. Everyone who is "good" has some evil plotting behind them. The glimpses into the past, about Mikey growing up, is real interesting. I also still love the art, I think it's solid as hell.

However...

Shattered Chains

Author	Clayton Emery
ISBN	0061054194

"Spare us from plague, drought, and wizardly duels..."

To common folk like Gull and Greensleeves, wizards were a blight on the land. When Greensleeves discovered her own magical ability, she decided to use it to break the power of the other wizards.

Gull's army helped, but not much--and...

The Minor Third

Author	Neil Patrick Harris
ISBN	0316391875

The third magical book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Misfits series from acclaimed and wildly popular celebrity Neil Patrick Harris!
Theo Stein-Meyer loves being part of the Magic Misfits. Armed with his trusty violin bow, he completes the team with his levitation skills, unflappable...