The Sisters Grimm
Michael Buckley
Two sisters discover they descend from the Brothers Grimm and must police fairy-tale characters living in a modern town, which echoes Conner's Grimm-family mystery and Colfer's comic take on classic characters.
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Books Like The Land of Stories
If you loved The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
Readers love A Grimm Warning for its mix of familiar fairy tales and real-world adventure: twins Alex and Conner split up, one training in magic, the other chasing a historical code across Europe with the Brothers Grimm. The humour is warm and quick, fairy-tale characters like Mother Goose and Red Riding Hood get funny new personalities, and the stakes rise as two worlds collide. It suits middle-grade readers who want fast chapters, sibling loyalty and clever twists on stories they already know.
Fairy tales turned upside down
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Adam Gidwitz
Hansel and Gretel wander through the original, darker Grimm stories with a chatty narrator, perfect for readers who enjoyed the Brothers Grimm history at the heart of A Grimm Warning.
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani
Two friends are swept into a school that trains fairy-tale heroes and villains, offering the same playful questioning of who is good, who is wicked, and how stories get told.
Magic training and new powers
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
A Cinderella retelling about a girl struggling with a fairy's gift, much like Alex finding that well-meant magic and wishes rarely go to plan.
Nevermoor
Jessica Townsend
Morrigan enters a dazzling magical city and must pass trials to prove herself, with the same whimsy, humour and growing sense of a hidden destiny that Alex faces.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
A girl raised by a witch slowly grows into powerful magic she cannot yet control, a gentle, fairy-tale-flavoured story for readers who liked Alex's Fairy Godmother lessons.
Siblings on big quests
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The classic journey into a magical land from our own world, full of odd companions and witches, which Colfer's series openly loves and references.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
Siblings step from ordinary life into an enchanted kingdom on the brink of war, the same blend of family bonds and epic battle that drives the twins' adventure.
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
Twin brothers and their sister uncover a hidden world of faeries through an old book, with short chapters and a mystery that pulls readers onward like Conner's code.
Codes, clues and fast adventure
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
Gifted children solve puzzles and go undercover to stop a looming threat, ideal for readers who enjoyed Conner cracking the Grimms' two-hundred-year-old code with his friends.
The Maze of Bones
Rick Riordan
A brother and sister race around the world following historical clues left by their family, closely matching Conner and Bree's code-breaking trip across Europe.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
Old myths come alive in the modern world with jokes, danger and a hero learning family secrets, the same energy that makes the Land of Stories so readable.
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