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If You Like...Rick Riordan

Many of these children's fantasy novels are published under the 'Rick Riordan Presents' imprint and feature a middle grade adventure with action and humour, as well as ties to the mythology of various cultures.

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  • Riley can't wait to see her sister Hattie get initiated into a powerful lineage of Korean healing witches their family has belonged to for generations. Although Riley is desperate to follow in Hattie's footsteps, she's a saram - without…
    BookLos Angeles : Disney Hyperion, [2021] — J KIM
  • In Silver Springs, Arizona, Paola's mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
    eBook[United States] : Disney Book Group, 2020.
  • Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2019. — Z
  • In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
    BookLos Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2019. — H
  • A magicless boy, a fierce bandit leader, and a lost princess must join forces to save their worlds from foreign forces and a long-forgotten evil that lurks in an ancient magical forest.
    BookNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]. — J OH
  • Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2018. — J DASG
  • When a powerful desert spirit kidnaps her sister, Cece Rios must learn forbidden magic to get her back.
    BookNew York, New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — R
  • When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni (the Korean word for grandmother).
    BookNew York, NY : Random House, 2020. — J KEL
  • Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
    BookLos Angeles ; New York : Disney HYPERION, 2020. — M
  • Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
    BookLos Angeles, California : Disney-Hyperion, 2019. — J LEE
  • Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
    BookLos Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2018. — C
  • Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo…
    BookLos Angeles ; New York : Disney HYPERION, 2019. — R
  • To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects…
    BookLos Angeles : Disney Hyperion, 2018. — C