We've got your back. With the Tough-O-Meter, you'll know whether to bring extra layers or Swiss army knives as you summit the literary mountain. (10 = Toughest)
(3) Base Camp
Want to visit a place where magic creatures live in secret? Sure, sign us up. This idea is not terribly hard to grasp, and the fact that the main characters are kids (eleven and almost-fourteen years old) makes the story easy to relate to and understand. Not everything is cheerful and hunky-dory in Fablehaven—in fact there are some downright gross and desperate parts of the story—but it's pretty easy to follow the plot as it progresses.