The Best Fantasy for Middle Grade Readers

The characters really make this series come alive, and I honestly would recommend starting with Red Wall. However, there are so many books in this series that are phenomenal.

And the world in this story is just so vibrant and interesting and steampunky and fun. And I loved reading this myself when I was younger.

This is a book that I read when I was much younger and I was selling books myself as a child author and I ran across Katherine Sullivan. We did a couple of events together and I loved this story.

This is such a fresh, fun twist on middle-grade fantasy and it was so exciting to me to see the future of that category so beautifully represented in this book.

I really love this story and again, it's a standalone, so it's a great way to taste test Cornelia Funk's work. and she does have other books like Dragon Rider and Inkheart if your middle-grade reader enjoys The Thief Lord, but this is my personal favorite of her books.