Books like Aru Shah and the End of Time
Aru Shah, twelve, who lives in a museum of Indian art in Atlanta and tells a lot of lies, lights a cursed lamp to prove a point and wakes the Sleeper, a demon who will bring the end of time.
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The Lightning Thief
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, a troubled kid with dyslexia and ADHD, learns that the Greek gods are real and that he is the son of one of them, and he has ten days to find Zeus's stolen lightning bolt and stop a war among the gods.
The Book of Three
Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.
Bridge of Birds
When the children of his village fall into a deathly sleep, Number Ten Ox, a strong and simple peasant, hires Master Li Kao, a sage with a slight flaw in his character, to find the Great Root of Power that might cure them.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
When his father Rashid, a storyteller in a sad city, loses his gift of the gab, Haroun travels to Kahani, the earth's second moon, to save the Sea of Stories from being poisoned.
The Lost Hero
Jason wakes on a school bus with no memory, holding hands with a girl named Piper who says she is his girlfriend, and with his best friend Leo is taken to Camp Half-Blood, where demigods are being called to a new quest.
James and the Giant Peach
James Henry Trotter, an orphan living miserably with two cruel aunts, is given a bag of magic crystals, and a peach on the old tree in the garden starts to grow, and grow.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.
The Hobbit
A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited by a wizard and thirteen dwarves to steal treasure from a dragon, and the journey transforms him utterly.
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Minli, who lives with her poor, hardworking parents in a village beside Fruitless Mountain, sets off on a goldfish's advice to ask the Old Man of the Moon how to change their fortune.
Kings of the Wyld
Clay Cooper, once of Saga, the most famous band of mercenaries in the land, is living quietly when his old frontman Golden Gabe asks him to get the band back together and cross a monster-filled wild to rescue Gabe's daughter from a besieged city.
The BFG
Sophie, an orphan, is snatched from her bed by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows good dreams through children's windows at night, and together they set out to stop the other giants, who eat children.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Kansas farm girl and her dog are carried by a cyclone to a country of witches and talking scarecrows and asked to walk a yellow road to a wizard who may be able to send her home.