Nightborn
10 best books like Nightborn (Lou Anders): Unsouled, Spy Camp, Loki's Wolves, Thor's Serpents, Contractor, The Crimson Queen, The Black Cauldron, Odin's Ravens, Fyre, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
I have heard great things about Will Wight's books. If Unsouled was just a taste of what the Cradle series has to offer, I will say those praises are well-founded.
Cradle is an Eastern-inspired fantasy with complex worldbuilding and a cool magic system that reminds me of the Chinese martial...
Author | Stuart Gibbs |
ISBN | 1442457538 |
School may be out for summer, but top-secret training continues for aspiring spy Ben Ripley—and so does the danger.
Ben Ripley is a middle-schooler whose school is not exactly average—he’s spent the last year training to be a top-level spy and dodging all sorts of associated danger....
Author | K.L. Armstrong |
ISBN | 1907411305 |
In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarok, that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters--wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds, all bent on destroying the world.
The gods died a long...
For fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the thrilling conclusion to The Blackwell Pages, written by New York Times bestselling YA authors, K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr.
Thirteen-year-olds Matt, Laurie, and Fen have beaten near-impossible odds to assemble their fellow descendants of the...
The Earth is under siege - and no one knows about it, because the invaders erase those whom they consume.
A handful of men and women stand on the border between the mundane and the magical. They have a special spark of soul; not quite enough to be naturally gifted in spellcraft, but greater than...
Author | Alec Hutson |
ISBN | 0998227609 |
2016 Ink and Insights Competition - Judges' Favorite
2017 Reader's Favorite Award for Epic Fantasy
2nd place in the 2017 SPFBO
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed...
Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper, and his friends are led into a mortal struggle with Arawn and his deathless warriors. Taran must wrest the black cauldron from them, for it is the cauldron that gives them their evil strength. But can he withstand the three enchantresses, who are determined to turn him...
Author | K.L. Armstrong |
ISBN | 1907411313 |
Seven kids, Thor's hammer, and a whole lot of Valkyries are the only things standing against the end of the world.
When thirteen-year-old Matt Thorsen, a modern day descendant of the Norse god Thor, was chosen to represent Thor in an epic battle to prevent the apocalypse he thought he knew how...
Author | Angie Sage |
ISBN | 0061242454 |
The seventh book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
Favorite characters return in this stunning seventh final book in Angie Sage's New...
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
Author | Sam Maggs |
ISBN | 1594749256 |
You may think you know women’s history pretty well, but have you ever heard of. . .
· Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy—only to have the credit taken by a man?
· Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted...
Ewzad Vriil’s keep has fallen and Justan has been reunited with his friends. But the kingdom remains in turmoil. The mother of the moonrats still builds the Dark Prophet’s army of monsters in the mountains and the Battle Academy’s forces are weakened.
Justan’s bonds with Fist and...
The Jharro Grove Saga: Part Two
Jhonate’s reprieve from her father has been cut short. She is forced to return home to Malaroo, bringing Justan along with her. The journey she has avoided for so long has become all the more difficult because someone wants Justan dead.
The rogue horse Esmine,...
Author | Merrie Haskell |
ISBN | 0062008161 |
Thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, has never given much thought to dragons, attending instead to her endless duties and wishing herself free of a princess's responsibilities.
When a greedy cousin steals Tilda's lands, the young princess goes...
Author | Philip Reeve |
ISBN | 1407115278 |
It EXISTS. I found it! Six months searching, and I finally found the perfect fantasy children's book.
To begin with, the book is such a lovely shade of green. Even the edges of the pages are green. Scoff all you want, it's a delightful detail.
And then there's the story itself. Scarper...
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are some of the most widely read and beloved books of the twentieth century. In December 2012, the man who brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s magical worlds to life with The Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson, will release the first of three film adaptations of The Hobbit,...
Author | Toby Forward |
ISBN | 1599907240 |
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 his side, Sam sets out alone on his quest. But there...
The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary.
As the war heats up in Arkaria, Vara is forced to flee after an ancient...
Endless flight continues the epic saga of Benjamin Ashwood. This classic swords and sorcery tale is inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and Tolkien's The Hobbit. If you liked them, you will love Benjamin Ashwood.
As Ben flees from powerful forces, the course of political alliances and...