21 must-read fantasy books like Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2) by Ali Sparkes

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Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

By: Ali Sparkes

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dax is starting to get used to his life as a shapeshifter. At last he feels safe and secure, surrou…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2) by Ali Sparkes , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Fire Storm (The One Dollar Horse, #3) by Lauren St. John

1. Fire Storm (The One Dollar Horse, #3)

By: Lauren St. John

4.24

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse Storm and a boyfriend who lo… read more

Similar categories in Lauren St. John's Fire Storm (The One Dollar Horse, #3) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1) by Sally Green

2. Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

By: Sally Green

3.73

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Wanted by no one. Hunted by everyone. Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled… read more

Similar categories in Sally Green's Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Me gusta ser tan fácil de olvidar"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Tengo tantas ganas de verla que duele"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Vivos y respirando como si fuéramos uno"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

"Así que cierras los ojos y recuerdas cosas. A veces está bien hacer eso"

-Sally Green, Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)

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3. Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, #1)

By: Jenny Nimmo

3.76

Format: None pages,

A magical fantasy that is fast-paced and easy-to-read. Charlie Bone has a special gift- he can hear… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Nimmo's Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event by Steve McNiven, Mark Millar, Dexter Vines, Morry Hollowell

4. Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event

By: Steve McNiven , Mark Millar , Dexter Vines , Morry Hollowell

4.10

Format: 208 pages, Comic

Whose side... are you on? The Marvel Universe is changing. In the wake of a tragedy, Capitol … read more

Similar categories in Steve McNiven's Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas."

-Steve McNiven, Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event

"Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something WRONG is something RIGHT. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the …"

-Steve McNiven, Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event

Cover of The One Dollar Horse (The One Dollar Horse, #1) by Lauren St. John

5. The One Dollar Horse (The One Dollar Horse, #1)

By: Lauren St. John

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local r… read more

Similar categories in Lauren St. John's The One Dollar Horse (The One Dollar Horse, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of War Horse (War Horse, #1) by Michael Morpurgo

6. War Horse (War Horse, #1)

By: Michael Morpurgo

4.15

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more

Similar categories in Michael Morpurgo's War Horse (War Horse, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"cause when there's life there's still hope"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

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7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

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8. Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

By: Ali Sparkes

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dax is starting to get used to his life as a shapeshifter. At last he feels safe and secure, surrou… read more

Similar categories in Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • shapeshifters
  • childrens
  • teen
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Race the Wind (The One Dollar Horse, #2) by Lauren St. John

9. Race the Wind (The One Dollar Horse, #2)

By: Lauren St. John

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Casey Blue's Badminton victory earns her and Storm an invitation to the prestigious Kentucky T… read more

Similar categories in Lauren St. John's Race the Wind (The One Dollar Horse, #2) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
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10. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

Similar categories in None's An Inspector Calls book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
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11. Skeleton Key

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terror… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Skeleton Key book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1) by Michelle Paver, Geoff Taylor

12. Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)

By: Michelle Paver , Geoff Taylor

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1) by Anthony Horowitz

13. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fo… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • teen
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"You're never too young to die."

-Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)

"Books grow old faster when they're not being read"

-Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)

"Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies."

-Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)

"Just remember,Alex Rider,you're never too young to die."

-Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)

14. Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (The Children of the Red King, #5)

By: Jenny Nimmo

3.81

Format: 234 pages,

When Charlie turns twelve on New Year's Eve, the Flame Cats give him a grave warning: Something anc… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Nimmo's Charlie Bone and the Hidden King (The Children of the Red King, #5) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

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15. What Monstrous Gods

By: Rosamund Hodge

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Centuries ago, the heretic sorcerer Ruven raised a deadly briar around Runakhia's palace, casting t… read more

Similar categories in Rosamund Hodge's What Monstrous Gods book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"When we get there, I whisper silently to Ruven, don’t leave me. “Never,"

-Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

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16. A Girl Called Corpse

By: Reece Carter

3.96

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

'Find the thing the Witches call a treasure,' says Old Man, 'and you'll get back all those memories… read more

Similar categories in Reece Carter's A Girl Called Corpse book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) by Pari Thomson

17. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Skandar and the Phantom Rider (Skandar #2) by A.F. Steadman

18. Skandar and the Phantom Rider (Skandar #2)

By: A.F. Steadman

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The Island shall have its revenge . . . Skandar Smith has achieved his dream to train as a unicorn … read more

Similar categories in A.F. Steadman's Skandar and the Phantom Rider (Skandar #2) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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19. Howl

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's Howl book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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20. Impossible Creatures

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

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21. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

By: Claire North

3.70

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more

Similar categories in Claire North's Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."

-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)

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22. Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

By: Darren Charlton

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared... In a post-apocalyptic America, a communit… read more

Similar categories in Darren Charlton's Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Open places make you consider yourself?" "Yeah," said Cooper. "Like the plains." "And the stars?" "Uh-huh. And the sea and the desert too, Pa says. But I dunno why that is." Peter shrugged. "Perhaps …"

-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

"Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and ye…"

-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

Cover of The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1) by Kwame Alexander

23. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."

-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

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24. The Good Thieves

By: Katherine Rundell

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Good Thieves book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

Cover of Lies (Gone, #3) by Michael  Grant

25. Lies (Gone, #3)

By: Michael Grant

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. It happens in one night. A girl w… read more

Similar categories in Michael Grant's Lies (Gone, #3) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Drake’s dead,"

-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)

"Where’s Dekka?"

-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)

"What happened?"

-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)

"Let them go, Caine,"

-Michael Grant, Lies (Gone, #3)

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26. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

Cover of Jummy at the River School by Sabine Adeyinka

27. Jummy at the River School

By: Sabine Adeyinka

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jummy has won a place at the River School, the finest girls’ boarding school in Nigeria. Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Sabine Adeyinka's Jummy at the River School book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Darkening (The Darkening, #1) by Sunya Mara

28. The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

By: Sunya Mara

3.58

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught … read more

Similar categories in Sunya Mara's The Darkening (The Darkening, #1) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"To do the one good thing that I must do, I find myself caught in a thousand small evils." I squeeze his hand until he looks at me. "I hope that one thing is worth it." "It is the only thing that matt…"

-Sunya Mara, The Darkening (The Darkening, #1)

Cover of Explorers at Stardust City (The Explorers' Clubs #6) by Alex Bell

29. Explorers at Stardust City (The Explorers' Clubs #6)

By: Alex Bell

4.20

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Directly below was a sight none of them had ever seen before - a kind of spiral, with glowing ruby-… read more

Similar categories in Alex Bell's Explorers at Stardust City (The Explorers' Clubs #6) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Hunger (Gone, #2) by Michael  Grant

30. Hunger (Gone, #2)

By: Michael Grant

4.02

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Grant's Hunger (Gone, #2) book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Hey, brah,"

-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)

"Four days,"

-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)

"First off,"

-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)

"Go, Breeze,"

-Michael Grant, Hunger (Gone, #2)

Cover of Where the River Runs Gold by Sita Brahmachari

31. Where the River Runs Gold

By: Sita Brahmachari

3.80

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury… read more

Similar categories in Sita Brahmachari's Where the River Runs Gold book and Ali Sparkes's Running the Risk (The Shapeshifter, #2)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

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