Books like The Wishing Spell
The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer reads as witty, warm. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What The Wishing Spell is like to read
A brisk, episodic romp through fractured fairy-tale territories where familiar characters are twisted into new shapes — witty and adventurous without tipping into real scares. Best for: middle-grade and YA readers who love fairy-tale mash-ups with humor and danger in equal measure.
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo · 2015
A propulsive fantasy heist with a rotating crew of scarred, morally-gray teens whose banter and slow-burn romances carry as much weight as the impossible job itself.
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · 2005
A wisecracking first-person voice barrels through a cross-country quest that turns Greek mythology into monster-of-the-chapter fun.
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik · 2020
A magical boarding school where survival is the only grade that matters, narrated by a prickly outcast with world-ending power she refuses to use.
The Enchantress Returns
Chris Colfer · 2013
A brisk middle-grade fairy-tale adventure with sibling protagonists racing to rescue their mother as an Enchantress throws the storybook world into chaos.
Smile
Raina Telgemeier · 2010
An earnest, episodic middle-school memoir in comics form — funny and cringey by turns, with real warmth as Raina grows past her insecurities.
Cinder
Marissa Meyer · 2012
A brisk fairy-tale retelling with a cyborg mechanic heroine, palace intrigue, and a plague-ridden futuristic Beijing — plot-forward, romantic, and easy to devour in a sitting.
Rapunzel's Revenge
Shannon Hale · 2008
A fairy-tale reimagining with a spirited heroine breaking out of a walled garden into a wild-west-flavored fantasy — brisk, illustrated, and adventurous.
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo · 2016
A twisty, con-after-con second half to the Six of Crows duology where the crew's schemes stack into cascading reveals and the emotional cost lands harder than the magic.
A Grimm Warning
Chris Colfer · 2014
A middle-grade fairy-tale adventure driven by a Grimm-brothers puzzle and sibling separation, aimed at readers who want quest momentum with light whimsy.
Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd · 2021
A warm middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who longs for a pet only to discover a severe allergy blocking her dream — a gentle, relatable story of family, disappointment, and finding belonging.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill · 2016
A fairy-tale-cadenced middle-grade fantasy told in lyrical, braided POVs — gentle and warm on the surface, with real grief and moral weight underneath.
Ruthless Vows
Rebecca Ross · 2024
A war-torn, letter-driven reunion romance where amnesia and separation stretch the emotional ache across the whole book, blending wistful longing with wartime stakes.
About The Wishing Spell — what the genome says
Is The Wishing Spell a complete story or a cliffhanger?
The main arc resolves, with wider series threads left open.
How scary is The Wishing Spell?
Mildly eerie — tension without real scares.
Who is The Wishing Spell for?
It's young adult — teen protagonists with crossover appeal.
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