If Lenora’s promotion to Assistant Librarian and her whirlwind tours through Departments—from Astronomy to Cartography—made you grin at every impossible discovery, you’ll love how September sails through Fairyland’s ever-surprising provinces. Like Lenora fending off the Forces of Darkness with questions and kindness, September navigates talking cities, capricious rules, and moral puzzles with pluck, curiosity, and heart. The same sense of “what astonishing thing will be around the next corner?” powers every chapter of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

You loved how Lenora ducked through the ordinary into a limitless Library and discovered a calling among shelves that contain, well, everything. In Tilly and the Bookwanderers, Tilly discovers she can step inside books from her family’s cozy shop, meeting characters face-to-face and unraveling mysteries that connect fiction to real life. It captures the same portal-magic thrill as Lenora’s first step past the Library’s doors—and the same reverence for how books make the world bigger.

If Lenora outwitting the censorious Forces of Darkness and zipping between Departments with quick thinking made you laugh, The Phantom Tollbooth will be your jam. Like Lenora’s pun-sprinkled encounters in the Library, Milo’s journey through Dictionopolis and Digitopolis turns grammar, math, and maps into delightful puzzles. The humor is bright and brisk, and every stop—much like Lenora’s departmental visits—makes learning feel like an adventure.

One charm of Lenora’s story is how each Department visit plays like a self-contained adventure—new problem, new wonder, new lesson. The Graveyard Book uses a similarly episodic rhythm as Bod grows up among ghosts, ghouls, and guardians; each chapter opens a distinct door, just as Lenora’s badge-earning tasks do. If you liked savoring those bite-sized discoveries in the Library, you’ll enjoy how every chapter here feels like a perfectly formed vignette with its own mystery and magic.

Lenora thrives by asking sharp questions, checking sources, and outsmarting the Forces of Darkness who’d rather people stop thinking. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library bottles that same love of knowledge into a rollicking puzzle-caper: kids must research, cross-reference, and decode clues to break out of a fantastical library overnight. If you admired how Lenora uses information as her superpower, this gleeful, clue-stacked romp will scratch the same intellectual itch.