Books like The Shadows by Beth Bracken

Orphan Alina Starkov is pulled from a war-torn world into a secretive school of magic where she discovers she may be the Sun Summoner capable of vanquishing the monstrous forces of the Fold.

In "Season of Shadows", Laura faces an unwanted marriage to Anton DeVere while struggling to secure a stable home for her orphaned niece Sally.

Rachel, Kirsty, and their camp friends are excited for a midnight feast at Camp Stargaze. But Morgan, the Midnight Fairy, is missing, and without her magic, the feast might not go well.

In the nighttime, a moon is lost, and Rachel and Kirsty need to find the Moonbeam Fairy, Anna.

In the dark, a group of children must save the Night Fairies' magic and rescue fireflies in Camp Stargaze.

Set during a crusade, "Follow the Shadows" follows silver‑blonde Solange as she navigates a marriage of convenience, love, and betrayal.

A twenty‑two‑year‑old orphan named Haskell Maloney uncovers that the war hero she thought was her father was not, and races to learn her true identity while facing a deadly threat in Chicago’s Oriental Institute.

When fairy-godmother-in-training Willow's wish to attend a human school comes true, she finds getting along with humans to be harder than she expected, but her newly-acquired magical talent makes it easy to collaborate with animals.

Lucy and Soledad have been best friends all their lives--until jealousy causes Soli to wish Lucy away.

Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets--and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper. As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It's up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good.

Eleven‑year‑old Olive and her parents move into a Victorian mansion, where mysterious paintings, a temperamental nine‑year‑old, and three talking cats reveal a dark plan that blurs magic, time and space.

Zara the Starlight Fairy is a magical adventure tale where the night sky is in danger of fading away without her help.

Rachel and Kirsty are stuck at Camp Stargaze due to terrible dreams. Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy is missing her magic, and they must find it to get back home.

When Jack Frost steals the magic of the Friendship Fairies, best friends Kirsty and Rachel must join forces with Esther the Kindness Fairy to battle the Ice Lord and his goblin minions and restore friendship magic to Fairyland and the world.