Books like 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.
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Magic Kingdom for Sale—Sold!
A grieving Chicago lawyer buys a magic kingdom from a department-store catalogue and discovers his new realm is broke, falling apart, and in need of a real king.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children evacuated to a country house find a wardrobe that opens into a snow-bound country held in perpetual winter by a witch, and a Christ-haunted lion who is coming back to undo her.
The Phantom Tollbooth
A bored American boy drives a toy tollbooth into a kingdom at war between the forces of Letters and Numbers and has to rescue two imprisoned princesses named Rhyme and Reason.
The Neverending Story
A bullied German schoolboy steals a book and reads himself into the empty country of Fantastica, where the Childlike Empress is dying because no one is still imagining her.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Twelve-year-old September, bored in Omaha, is carried off to Fairyland by the Green Wind and a Leopard, and soon finds herself on a quest against the tyrannical Marquess, with a library-loving dragon for company.
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.
Peter Pan
Three Bloomsbury children are flown out their nursery window by a boy who will not grow up, into an island where mothers are a rumour and the pirates and the lost boys keep taking turns being the villain.
Inkheart
Meggie's father Mo, a bookbinder, can read characters out of books and into the world, and years ago he read a villain named Capricorn out of a novel called Inkheart, who now wants him back.
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.
Stardust
In Victorian England, young Tristran Thorn promises to bring the girl he loves a fallen star, and crosses the wall from his village into the land of Faerie, where the star turns out to be a young woman.
A Darker Shade of Magic
Kell, one of the last magicians who can travel between parallel Londons, Grey, Red, White and long-dead Black, smuggles objects between them, until a dangerous artefact and a thief named Lila Bard draw him into a deadly plot.
Neverwhere
Richard Mayhew, an ordinary young Londoner, helps an injured girl he finds on the pavement and falls out of his own life into London Below, a dark, magical city of people who slipped through the cracks.