Books Like Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
If Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan worked for you, these indie books offer a similar reading experience. The comparison comes from AI analysis of each full manuscript (pacing, tone, tropes, and more), not from marketing copy.
WorldWind
Brett Schneider
Sixteen-year-old Zuma “Z” Alexander is grieving her father, fighting with her mother, and barely holding herself together when she chases a legendary green flash across the Pacific on a kiteboard. Instead of finding light, Z finds a doorway. Pulled into Vindurheim, a flooded world of rival seafaring peoples, ancient prophecy, monstrous creatures, and brutal war, Z is stranded far from Earth with no obvious way home. Her only advantages are a dead phone, her talent for kitesurfing, a stubborn refusal to stay out of trouble, and fragments of knowledge from a world far more technologically advanced than this one. As Z becomes entangled in a conflict between the Paskari and Vin-Paskari, she must decide whether finding her way home matters more than saving the people who have given her something she thought she had lost: purpose. WorldWind is a YA portal fantasy adventure about grief, survival, found family, and discovering that sometimes the way forward begins by being blown completely off course.
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Wraithbound
HL Hopkins
Daisy Hartridge has never been good at life—but she's spectacularly bad at it when she is dragged through a dimensional rift into a world of wraiths and wraith riders. Thrust into Artonia, where her emotions literally take physical form. Three powerful wraiths that she must bond with, or lose. For the other riders, duty, control and routine are everything, and with her head full of chaotic brain-squirrels, those are definitely not areas she excels in. She can't even get to class on time! But as she's forced to navigate a conspiracy that reaches deeper than anyone realises, against a ticking clock none of them fully understand, she gains a creeping suspicion that, for once, she might actually be the only one equipped to stop it. With a found family of deeply flawed allies at her side, Daisy stumbles toward answers—and the uncomfortable truth that saving Artonia might require taking a closer look at herself first. Content Warnings Explained: Child Abuse - relationship between a child and caregiver featuring coercive control and verbal bullying. Graphic Violence/Gore - briefly features a character being shot, with a short reference to bloodshed. Mental Health Crisis - relates to a key character's struggle with guilt and self.
Fantasy
The Secret Under Vernal
Sandra Boyle
When twelve-year-old Brynn discovers a warm, ticking egg left mysteriously at her door in dinosaur-obsessed Vernal, Utah, she knows she's stumbled onto something impossible—something the adults around her seem determined to keep hidden. With her loyal husky Rex and her skeptical best friend Mason by her side, Brynn ventures into the red rock landscape surrounding her small town, where fossil beds hide secrets far older and stranger than anyone imagined. As she unravels the truth beneath Vernal's dinosaur-themed streets, Brynn learns that some discoveries demand protection, not explanation, and that the greatest adventure begins when you choose to trust what your heart knows is real. Perfect for readers who love creature mysteries, small-town magic, and the comfort of found family.
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