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If you like The Hidden Oracle
The Hidden Oracle
by Rick Riordan

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"
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The Inquisitor's Tale, or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
by Adam Gidwitz

Crossing paths at an inn, three 13th-century travelers impart the wryly whimsical tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee and a psychic peasant girl, who, in the company of a loyal greyhound, must escape evil knights, sit alongside a king and save their land from a flatulent dragon. 
The Secret Keepers
by Trenton Lee Stewart

Spending his days exploring the abandoned buildings near where he and his mother live after falling on rough times, 11-year-old Reuben discovers a mysterious pocket watch that gives him the power of invisibility, a relic that causes him to be targeted by a band of dangerous men who are threatening the city. By the award-winning author of the Mysterious Benedict Society series. 
Lodestar
by Shannon Messenger

Betrayed by one of their closest allies, Sophie and her companions are confronted by dangerous battles and ever-increasing stakes as they try to defend their world. By the author of the Sky Fall series. 
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
by Janet S Fox

Believing that there is a logical explanation for everything despite strange occurrences at drafty Rookskill Castle where children have been sent to escape the London Blitz, 12-year-old Katherine discovers, in the wake of numerous disappearances, that the castle's overseer has been harboring a Nazi spy.
Rise of the Wolf
by Jennifer A Nielsen

Swept up by the Praetor War after escaping slavery in the mines outside of Rome, Nic is targeted by secretive enemies who take his mother captive in order to force him to help them obtain a powerful amulet that could destroy the Roman empire. 
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The Thickety : A Path Begins
by J. A White

Shunned by villagers who convicted her mother of witchcraft years earlier, Kara is lured by an unusual bird into a forbidden magical forest where she discovers a strange book of unspeakable power that may have belonged to her mother.
A World without Heroes
by Brandon Mull

Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth
The Land of Stories : The Enchantress Returns
by Chris Colfer

Twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty
Bad Unicorn
by Platte F. Clark

Max Spencer is an underachiever but when a carnivorous unicorn, Princess the Destroyer, and an evil wizard, Rezormoor, bring him, the only one who can read the legendary Codex of Infinite Knowability, to their magical realm, he must find the courage to save himself, his friends, and the entire human race
The School for Good and Evil
by Soman Chainani

Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and Agatha (witchy loner) are headed (via kidnapping) to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed: Sophie's dumped into the School for Evil for Uglification and Henchmen Training classes, while Agatha attends Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication at the School for Good, and when a certain prince charming (son of King Arthur) is thrown into the mix, anything can happen!
The Blackthorn Key
by Kevin Sands

In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart
The Candy Shop War
by Brandon Mull

When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the new candy store owner Mrs. White, she gives them magical candy that endows them with super powers, but soon they find that along with these benefits are dangerous consequences
 
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