If you loved how Jill and Eustace pass through the wall at Aslan’s call and trek into Underland to free Prince Rilian, you’ll have a blast with the hidden door at King’s Cross that opens every nine years in The Secret of Platform 13. A mismatched rescue team ventures from a magical island to modern London to reclaim a kidnapped prince—complete with misdirections, cozy-but-strange creatures, and a race-against-the-clock urgency that echoes the hunt for the boy bound to the silver chair.

As in The Silver Chair, where Aslan’s four signs set a firm course to Rilian and Puddleglum keeps the trio fixed on the mission despite enchantments, The Hobbit is propelled by a single, vivid goal: reach the Lonely Mountain and reclaim the treasure. Maps with moon-runes, riddling confrontations, and steadfast traveling companions deliver that same classic, forward-driving adventure energy you enjoyed from the marshes to the Lady of the Green Kirtle’s lair.

If the growing bond between Jill and Eustace—prickly starts, shared danger, and earned loyalty—was your favorite part, Will and Lyra’s partnership in The Subtle Knife will hit the same sweet spot. Crossing worlds through window-like cuts, they navigate treacherous cities and shadowy pursuers, learning to read each other the way Jill learns to trust Eustace (and Puddleglum) when it matters most—like in that firelit showdown where resolve breaks an enchantment.

The way Aslan’s signs call for faith and clear-sightedness—and how Puddleglum’s defiant speech cuts through the Lady of the Green Kirtle’s lull—parallels A Wrinkle in Time, where Meg must confront IT’s smothering influence with love and conviction. If the moral clarity of freeing Rilian from the silver chair’s spell moved you, you’ll appreciate how Meg’s inner resolve becomes the key to rescuing Charles Wallace from a subtler, equally insidious enchantment.

If the intimate feel of Jill, Eustace, and Puddleglum threading through caverns and confronting a hidden ruler gripped you, The Tombs of Atuan offers a similarly close-quarters intensity. Most of the drama unfolds in lightless tunnels and buried chambers, as Tenar and Ged face ancient powers below the earth. The hushed dread and hard-won courage recall the moment the silver chair’s hold is broken in the Underland—and how a few determined souls can shift a whole world from the shadows.