Can’t get enough of wizards? What about Boarding Schools? Or Secret Worlds? We’ve got a book for each of the things that might have drawn you to Potter, thanks to NoveList. Don’t see your interest on the list? Come to the library and we’ll find books that fit your tastes.
Dragonwatch / Brandon Mull ; illustrated by Brandon Dorman.
In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. The time has come to break free and reclaim his power. No one person is capable of stopping Celebrant and his dragon horde. It will take the ancient order of Dragonwatch to gather again if there is any chance of saving the world from destruction.
The School for Good and Evil / Soman Chainani ; illustrations by Iacopo Bruno.
Best friends Sophie and Agatha anticipate attending the fabled School for Good and Evil. Sophie knows she will excel at the School for Good, and graduate a storybook princess, while Agatha seems a natural fit for the School of Evil. A twist of fate finds Sophie dumped in the School for Evil, and Agatha in the School for good. Is this all a terrible mistake, or the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha truly are?
The storybook of legends / by Shannon Hale.
At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of famous fairy-tale characters, students Apple White and Raven Queen face the moment when they must choose whether to follow their destinies, or change them.
Carry on : the rise and fall of Simon Snow / Rainbow Rowell.
In Carry On, Simon Snow and Baz Grimm-Pitch are, respectively, the Chosen One and a vampire. Both individuals have entirely different family lives, reputations, and beliefs. When they are forced to form an alliance over a common cause, however, they come to realize they might make a better team than they would like to admit. It’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s infuriating nemesis, Baz, didn’t even bother to show up …
Shadow and bone / Leigh Bardugo.
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
A darker shade of magic : a novel / V. E. Schwab.
Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes, connected by one magical city. There’s Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king-George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered-and where Kell was raised alongside Rhys Maresh, the rougish heir to a flourishing empire. White London-a place where people fight to control magic, and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, ambassador of the Maresh empire, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.
A deadly education : a novel / Naomi Novik.
From the time she was young, living with her mother on a commune, Galadriel has had a special bond with magical forces. As this novel opens, she is in her third year in the Scholomance, a school for magically gifted children. In Scholomance, students are tested daily on not only their magical abilities but their ability to survive the other students, the magical inhabitants of the school, the creepy cafeteria, and the dangerous coursework. Outcast Galadriel can rely on no help from the other students, except for Orion, who appears to be some kind of inhumanly heroic monster slayer. But is he trying to help, or does he have sinister ulterior motives for always showing up when she’s in danger?