18 books like Night of the New Magicians

What to read after Night of the New Magicians — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Carnival at Candlelight Mary Pope Osborne · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 113p · ≈ 3h · Light MERLIN HAS ASKED Jack and Annie to help on another Merlin Mission. This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy. With the help of a research book, a book of magic rhymes, and a set of mysterious instructions from Merlin, the heroes will save the beautiful city from a flood! Here's another Magic Tree House book that will engage kids with history, magic, and nonstop action from beginning… Shares Magia, Spanish language materials, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel

Exiles of the Stars Andre Norton · 1971 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is the second in the Moon Singer series featuring “Maelen”, the former moon singer of the primitive planet mythical “Thassa”. Also revolving around the cargo apprentice “Krip Vorland’, now in the body of the “Thassa” and the crew of the free-trader “Lydis” who’s sabotaged ship barely survives its landing on a barren and hostile planet. One by one, the crew of the Lydis and in addition to… Shares Time Travel, Science Fiction

The Anubis Gates Tim Powers · 1983 · ★ 3.9 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate An ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, the protagonist Professor Brendan Doyle, who wanted none of this nonsense. Shares Time Travel, Science Fiction

Doctor Who British Broadcasting Corporation · 1989 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Climb aboard the TARDIS for a journey through space, time, and comedy in the official Doctor Who joke book! -What do we want? -TIME TRAVEL! -When do we want it? -THAT'S IRRELEVANT! Packed with a dimensionally transcendent TARDIS-load amount of jokes, gags and riddles, this is the official Doctor Who joke book! Remember: it's funnier on the inside! Shares Time Travel, Science Fiction

Special deliverance Clifford D. Simak · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It all started when Professor Edward Lansing wanted to know who really wrote that great term paper on Shakespeare and learned that his student had bought it from a slot machine. Going to investigate, the good professor found the machine, which gave him two keys and sent him in search of other slot machines. The third machine he tried took his money and transported him to a strange new… Shares Time Travel, Science Fiction

Son of Man Robert Silverberg · 1971 · ★ 3.4 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 1972 Locus Poll Award nominee, best SF novel IN THE BEGINNING... there was no Brooklyn, no St. Louis, no Shakespeare, no moon, no hunger, no death... IN THE BEGINNING... there were no real men, no real women, nothing but dispassionately passionate ambisexuals of the lowest and highest order... IN THE BEGINNING... the heavens, the seas and the Earth belonged to more intelligent species… Shares Time Travel, Science Fiction

Season of the Sandstorms Mary Pope Osborne · 2005 · ★ 4.1 · 107p · ≈ 3h · Light Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on their mission. There they meet a Bedouin tribe and learn about the way that they live. From camel rides and oases to ancient writings and dangerous sandstorms, here's another Magic Tree House filled with all the mystery, history, magic, and old-fashioned adventure that… Shares Magia, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Historical Fiction

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction, History

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Decline of Science in England Charles Babbage · 1830 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging xvi, 228 p. 22 cm Shares Science, History

The Edge of the Knife H. Beam Piper · 2006 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Light Ed Chalmers, history professor, had a real problem in his classes: he kept blurting out events that hadn't happened yet. Of course that made him the butt of jokes and ridicule, and the Dean wanted him out despite his tenure. But Ed had other ideas ... especially when his predictions started coming true! Shares Magic, Science Fiction, Children's fiction

Summer of the sea serpent Mary Pope Osborne · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Light Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin. Shares Magia, Spanish language materials, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel

Day of the Dragon King Mary Pope Osborne · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King. Shares Magia, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic

Vacation Under the Volcano Mary Pope Osborne · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 74p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. Shares Spanish language materials, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel, Magic

Midnight on the moon Mary Pope Osborne · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future, where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell. Shares Magia, Spanish language materials, Time Travel, Magic

Steel Magic Andre Norton · 1965 · ★ 3.8 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Sara, Eric, and Greg Lowery stumble into the enchanted land of Avalon. Once there the children must complete an important mission in order to return to their world. Shares Time Travel, Magic, Science Fiction, History

Dinosaurs Before Dark Mary Pope Osborne · 1992 · ★ 4.5 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. ---------- ###German-language description: Ein Baumhaus mitten im Wald, wie aufregend! Neugierig klettern Anne und Philipp die Strickleiter hinauf. Wem es wohl gehört? Doch plötzlich beginnt das Baumhaus, sich wild zu drehen. Immer schneller… Shares Magia, Spanish language materials, Brothers and sisters, Time Travel

Longitude Dava Sobel · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,… Shares Science, History

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