Books like Max and the Midknights

Looking for books like Max and the Midknights by Lincoln Peirce (Fantasy · grades 3–6)? It’s most often read for its themes of adventure, humor, and identity. The 10 titlesbelow are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

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10 books similar to Max and the Midknights

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Why each is a match

A Royal Conundrumgrades 3–6
Shares themes of adventure, humor, and identity and overlapping grades (3–6).
Dog Man390L
Shares themes of humor and identity and overlapping grades (2–5).
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spellgrades 3–7
Shares themes of adventure, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (3–7).
Willa of the Woodgrades 4–7
Shares themes of identity, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (4–7).
Beanie the Bansheeniegrades 2–5
Shares themes of humor and identity and overlapping grades (2–5).
Boy 2.0grades 4–8
Shares themes of adventure and identity and overlapping grades (4–8).
Confessions of a Class Clowngrades 6–8
Shares themes of humor and identity and overlapping grades (6–8).
Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knightgrades 3–6
Shares themes of humor and identity and overlapping grades (3–6).
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life890L
Shares themes of humor and identity and overlapping grades (4–7).
Geronimo Stilton: Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye530L
Shares themes of adventure and humor and overlapping grades (2–5).

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