Books like Apprentice Needed by Obert Skye

A boy with broken memory wakes in a stone‑walled maze, where he meets other children who call it the Glade. When the first girl arrives, secrets about survival, cooperation, and the maze’s mystery begin to surface.

Eragon discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon, thrusting a farm boy into a perilous destiny as a potential Dragon Rider, with ancient sword and a storyteller’s guidance, amid the Empire’s ominous reign.

A bored boy named Milo stumbles upon a magic tollbooth, launching him into the whimsical Kingdom of Wisdom where he embarks on a quest to recover the lost princesses of Rhyme and Reason.

Four orphaned girls in Carthya are chosen for a deadly contest to impersonate the king’s lost son, a scheme that could avert civil war.

When the secret refuge of mythical beings, Fablehaven, falls into danger, siblings Kendra and Seth must confront ancient laws and unleashed evil to save their family and the world.

In Midkemia, an orphan kitchen boy named Pug is chosen as an apprentice to a sorcerer, only to find himself caught in a war between worlds where he discovers a latent, powerful magic within himself.

The final answer to the existence of magic. Ozzy and his friend Sigi are in more danger than ever before. After being injected with the mindcontrolling serum, Ozzy is learning to control the minds of people, but he is still being hunted by Ray, the power-mad villain who will stop at nothing to find and possess the formula. And on top of that, Rin still claims he’s a wizard, but he and Clark are missing, leaving Ozzy to wonder once again if magic really does exist. When it becomes apparent that the minds and free will of all mankind are in danger of being controlled by whoever controls the serum, Ozzy and Sigi join forces with strange new friends that claim magic-like abilities. When Rin finally returns, Ozzy will discover once and for all what happened to his parents, what really happens at those popular fantasy conventions, and if magic truly exists. ---------- **Books in this series** 1. [Wizard for Hire][1] 2. [Apprentice Needed][2] 3. Magic Required [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19735735W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20154070W

Sixteen‑year‑old Ryiah enters the Academy of Magic’s Combat faction as an apprentice, facing a grueling four‑year journey across Jerar while training with an ex‑nemesis and navigating tense alliances with a prince before war erupts.

Alice and five fellow apprentice readers must survive a perilous adventure inside a rival library guarded by a vicious sentinel.