Hi! I’m looking for novels that feel like magical girl stories (such as Sailor Moon and Puella Magi Madoka Magica) – tackling themes of girlhood, friendship, and coming of age as you tackle duties beyond your years. I’m not looking for comics, only novels and short story collections 🙂
Ones I already know: “A Magical Girl Retires” by Park Seolyeon, “Hurricane Heels” by Isabel Yap, “Unbreakable” by Mira Grant
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Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli
How about the Magic Attic series? It may be quite old by now, I was reading it when I was in elementary school in the late 90s/early 2000s, but I loved it. It was about a group of girls who had some sort of magic mirror or magic trunk in an old attic that would transport them on adventures. They had a line of American Girl-sized dolls too. I used to love flipping through their catalog.
Link: https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/magic-attic-club/51122/
The “Wayward Children” series by Seanan McGuire should be a great fit, especially since Mira Grant and Seanan McGuire are the same person
https://us.macmillan.com/series/waywardchildren
Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Fairyland series by Catherynne M Valente