18 books like Octagon Magic
The Watch House
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
Shares: Houses, Children's fiction
The children of Green Knowe
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Shares: Houses, Time Travel, Fantasy, Children's fiction
An enemy at Green Knowe
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.
Shares: Houses, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
House of secrets
When Brendan, Cordelia and Nell move to Kristoff House they have no idea that they are about to unleash the dark magic locked within. For the house once belonged to a crazed writer, whos stories have come to life. Literally. Now the Walker kids must battle against deadly pirates, bloodthirsty warriors and a bone-crushing giant. If they fail they will never see their parents again and a power-mad…
Shares: Houses, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Last Dragonslayer (Last Dragonslayer, #1)
"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--Provided by publisher.
Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it is hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Then…
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Magic World
Twelve stories with magic occurrences.
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
Dragon Magic
A Hidden Treasure
Sig, Artie, Kim, and Ras live in the same neighborhood and go to the same school, but they have nothing in common…until each of them sneaks into the old abandoned house on the corner and discovers the strange puzzle box covered with pictures of four dragons. Drawn by powerful magic, the boys find themselves bound together by a mystery that will transform them all—and transport…
Shares: Time Travel, Magic, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
The Song of the Quarkbeast
King Snodd IV of the Kingdom of Hereford has realized that the power of magic has untold financial possibilities, and the man who controls magic controls almost anything. To this end, he has appointed as Official Court Sorcerer the odious Blix at Industrial Magic, one of only two Houses of Enchantment left in the world. With Blix's willing assistance, only one person stands between King Snodd and…
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Edge of the Knife
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, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
The Royal Book of Oz
Scarecrow searches for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island.
Shares: Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart
Aventurine is not the kind of dragon who can sit inside her family mountain for decades. If she’s cooped up for even one more hour, she might explode! Her family claims she’s too young to leave safely, but she’s fierce and she’s brave, and she’s ready to prove it by capturing the most dangerous prey of all: a human.
Unfortunately, the human she captures turns out to be even sneakier than she was…
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction
Dragons in a Bag
When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she s not his grandmother but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical world where they ll be safe.
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Witches of Worm
A lonely twelve-year-old is convinced that the cat she finds is possessed by a witch and is responsible for her own strange behavior.
Shares: Girls, Magic, Children's fiction
Gespensterjäger
German-language description:
Ein schleimiges Gespenst sitzt im Keller! Tom will nur noch eines: flüchten. Doch da bietet ihm die erfahrene Gespensterjägerin Hedwig Kümmelsaft ihre Hilfe an und Tom traut sich, das Gespenst zu verjagen.
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Timid nine-year-old Tom Tomsky reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Camomile dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an…
Shares: Houses, Children's fiction
Rinkitink in Oz
When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
Shares: Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Midnight over Sanctaphrax
Twig has the caterbird tethered to his ship, the edgedancer, and is being led into a storm never seen before, on his way to find his father. Twig soon learns that this storm is the mother storm, and that the mythical place, called riverisse is real. And is torn between a simple yet complicated choice. Cut the anchor chain of sanctaphrax, and all of the edges knowledge, to save riverisse, or have…
Shares: Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
Wet Magic
On a holiday at the seashore, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis save a mermaid from captivity and, after an incredible magic-filled journey beneath the waves, they must race against time to avert a war and save their underwater friends.
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction
The Magic City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
Shares: Magic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction