20 best-selling middle grade books like Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer

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Three Tasks for a Dragon

By: Eoin Colfer

4.08

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

With wit and gorgeous art, New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer and multi-award-winning i…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

1. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • dragons
  • adventure
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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2. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fairy tales
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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3. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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4. Orris and Timble: The Beginning

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilo… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Orris and Timble: The Beginning book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

5. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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6. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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7. Remember Us

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply in… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Remember Us book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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8. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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9. The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

By: G.Z. Schmidt

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange. Even before the incident. When six-year-old… read more

Similar categories in G.Z. Schmidt's The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Knowledge, someone once said, was power—and the fewer children with power, the better."

-G.Z. Schmidt, The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

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10. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer

11. Three Tasks for a Dragon

By: Eoin Colfer

4.08

Format: 113 pages, Hardcover

With wit and gorgeous art, New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer and multi-award-winning i… read more

Similar categories in Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fairy tales
  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Things in the Basement by Ben Hatke

12. Things in the Basement

By: Ben Hatke

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke comes Things in the Basement, a young readers grap… read more

Similar categories in Ben Hatke's Things in the Basement book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Leeva at Last

By: Sara Pennypacker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tale about a precocious girl who transforms her community in surprising ways. What are people … read more

Similar categories in Sara Pennypacker's Leeva at Last book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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14. Duel

By: Jessixa Bagley

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rivalry between sisters culminates in a fencing duel in this funny and emotional debut graphic no… read more

Similar categories in Jessixa Bagley's Duel book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • juvenile
Cover of Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

15. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1) by Scott Chantler

16. Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1)

By: Scott Chantler

4.02

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A young squire tackles mysteries, monsters and magic, but the inept knight he serves takes the cred… read more

Similar categories in Scott Chantler's Squire & Knight (Squire & Knight, #1) book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

17. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Elf Dog and Owl Head book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

18. Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning T… read more

Similar categories in Donna Barba Higuera's Alebrijes book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) by Katherine Applegate

19. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1) by Katherine Marsh

20. Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1)

By: Katherine Marsh

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist Katherine Percy Jackson meets The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Aca… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's Medusa (The Myth of Monsters #1) book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Forever Twelve (The Evers) by Stacy McAnulty

21. Forever Twelve (The Evers)

By: Stacy McAnulty

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What if you were twelve for all of eternity? From the award-winning author of The Miscalculations o… read more

Similar categories in Stacy McAnulty's Forever Twelve (The Evers) book and Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile

20 must-read fiction books like Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer

Transform Your Habits

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Puppets of Spelhorst

Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Orris and Timble: The Beginning

Kate DiCamillo

4.37

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

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The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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