While you are waiting for the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , which comes out July 21st, give these other titles a try…
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander (Prydain Chronicles)
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
The Wizard Test by Hilari Bell
The Wizard, the Ugly, and the Book of Shame by Pablo Bernasconi
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl series)
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (Dark Is Rising series)
So You Want To Be A Wizard? by Diane Duane (Wizard series)
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey (Harper Hall Trilogy)
Midnight For Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimo (Children of the Red King series)
Sabriel by Garth Nix (The Abhorsen trilogy)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (A Tiffany Aching Adventure)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials series)
Magyk by Angie Sage (Septimus Heap series)
The Amulet of Samarkand by Johnathan Stroud (Bartimaeus trilogy)
Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor
Wizard At Work: A Novel In Stories by Vivian Vande Velde
The Unvisibles by Ian Whybrow
PS: If you don’t have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on hold yet, click on the title, which will take you to directly to its catalog entry, or search the catalog to find any of the titles listed!