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Books like Tuck Everlasting

If you liked Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Silver Chair

    C. S. Lewis · 1953 · Chronicles of Narnia #4

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.

    Eustace and Jill retold: four signs, a lost prince, Puddleglum the Marsh-wiggle, giants at Harfang, and the Lady below.

  2. The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster · 1961

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.

    A bored boy drives a toy car through a magic tollbooth into the Kingdom of Wisdom and learns to care about words, numbers and time.

  3. The Last Battle

    C.S. Lewis · 1956 · Chronicles of Narnia #7

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.

    Lewis ends Narnia: Shift ape false Aslan, King Tirian last stand, Jill and Eustace at Stable Hill, and a morning beyond the world.

  4. The Horse and His Boy

    C. S. Lewis · 1954 · Chronicles of Narnia #5

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.

    Shasta and Bree flee Calormen to Narnia with Aravis and Hwin.

  5. Peter Pan

    J.M. Barrie · 1911

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, children.

    Wendy, John and Michael fly to Neverland with Peter, face Hook, and learn what growing up costs.

  6. Goodnight Moon

    Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

    Because shares tags: classics, children, family.

    A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.

  7. The Witches

    Roald Dahl · 1983

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.

    A boy and his grandmother face the Grand High Witch's plan to turn England's children into mice.

  8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1900 · Oz #1

    Because shares tags: classics, fantasy, children.

    Dorothy is carried to Oz by a cyclone and walks the yellow brick road with Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion.

  9. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    C. S. Lewis · 1952 · Chronicles of Narnia #3

    Because shares tags: fantasy, children, classics.

    Lewis sends Lucy, Edmund and Eustace aboard Caspian's Dawn Treader to find seven lost lords, past dragon gold, dark dreams and the world's…

  10. The BFG

    Roald Dahl · 1982

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.

    Orphan Sophie is taken by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows happy dreams and eats vile snozzcumbers, and helps her stop nine man eating…

  11. Prince Caspian

    C.S. Lewis · 1951 · Chronicles of Narnia #2

    Because shares tags: children, fantasy, classics.

    The Pevensies return to ruins at Cair Paravel and help Caspian take back Narnia from Miraz.

  12. James and the Giant Peach

    Roald Dahl · 1961

    Because shares tags: children, classics, fantasy.

    Lonely James escapes two cruel aunts inside a giant peach with huge insect friends, rolling to the sea and floating on gulls to New York…

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