15 must-read middle grade books like The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Cover of The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Way Past Winter

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Mila and her sisters live with their brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in the snow. One night, …

"MIla took a deep breath as she entered, inhaling the warm biscuity smell of the dogs, so comforting even in her saddest moments."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter

"MIla took a deep breath as she entered, inhaling the warm biscuity smell of the dogs, so comforting even in her saddest moments."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1)

By: Katherine Woodfine

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a wo… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Woodfine's The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell, Gelrev Ongbico

2. The Wolf Wilder

By: Katherine Rundell , Gelrev Ongbico

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplace… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Stories can start revolutions."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Hard work always hurts somewhere."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves are the witches of the animal world."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

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3. The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales

By: Kate Mosse

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired … read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fiction
Cover of Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin

4. Snow & Rose

By: Emily Winfield Martin

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more

Similar categories in Emily Winfield Martin's Snow & Rose book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

5. Winter Magic

By: Michelle Magorian , Geraldine McCaughrean , Abi Elphinstone , Amy Alward , Emma Carroll , Michelle Harrison , Jamila Gavin , Berlie Doherty , Piers Torday , Katherine Woodfine , None

3.79

Format: None pages, ebook

A beautiful and classic anthology of frosty, magical short stories from acclaimed children's writer… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Magorian's Winter Magic book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1)

By: Siobhan McDermott

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A 12-year-old girl wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals in the first book of t… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan McDermott's The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

7. The Way Past Winter

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Mila and her sisters live with their brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in the snow. One night, … read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"MIla took a deep breath as she entered, inhaling the warm biscuity smell of the dogs, so comforting even in her saddest moments."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Way Past Winter

Cover of The Snow Girl by Sophie   Anderson

8. The Snow Girl

By: Sophie Anderson

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning and critically acclaimed Sophie Anderson, comes a fairy-tale story of friendship… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Snow Girl book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay

9. The Skylarks’ War

By: Hilary McKay

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandpare… read more

Similar categories in Hilary McKay's The Skylarks’ War book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
"There were not rules, only consequences"

-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

"There were no rules, only consequences."

-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

"This was school, and everything he'd feared. Barren, jarring, stale, always lonely and never alone. He had known it would be bad, and it was."

-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

"Away from the front, where the supply lines ran, there were rest camps and first aid stations, and even patches of farmland. Often at that time of year you could hear skylarks over the fields. Soldie…"

-Hilary McKay, The Skylarks’ War

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10. Die Schwarze Königin

By: Markus Heitz

3.62

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Gegenwart: Der Busausflug nach Prag und ins Banat läuft anders, als der junge Len es sich je hätte… read more

Similar categories in Markus Heitz's Die Schwarze Königin book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen by Clara Törnvall

11. Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen

By: Clara Törnvall

3.90

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

A playful guide to understanding the ways of ‘normal’, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy flips our u… read more

Similar categories in Clara Törnvall's Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • audiobook
Cover of Nevertell by Katharine  Orton

12. Nevertell

By: Katharine Orton

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A snowy adventure, set in the wilds of Siberia, full of magic and wonder. Born in a Soviet pris… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Orton's Nevertell book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Yours from the Tower

By: Sally Nicholls

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bridgerton fans rejoice! This epistolary confection—told in letters among three school friends—is p… read more

Similar categories in Sally Nicholls's Yours from the Tower book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hedgewitch (Hedgewitch, #1) by Skye McKenna

14. Hedgewitch (Hedgewitch, #1)

By: Skye McKenna

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

First in a magical five-book series for readers of Nevermoor, The Worst Witch and The Dark Is Risin… read more

Similar categories in Skye McKenna's Hedgewitch (Hedgewitch, #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Cassandra Morgan was hiding in the broom cupboard. It wasn't a bad place to hide. all things considered; a narrow window provided light to read by and an upturned bucket served well enough as a seat.…"

-Skye McKenna, Hedgewitch (Hedgewitch, #1)

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15. Asha & the Spirit Bird

By: Jasbinder Bilan

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Asha lives on the family farm with her mother in rural India. Her father is away working in the … read more

Similar categories in Jasbinder Bilan's Asha & the Spirit Bird book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
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16. Green Rising

By: Lauren James

3.77

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Set in a near-future world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, Lauren James’ novel is a grippin… read more

Similar categories in Lauren James's Green Rising book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

17. Island of Whispers

By: Frances Hardinge

4.35

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Island of Whispers book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

Cover of The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters, #1) by Karen Foxlee

18. The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters, #1)

By: Karen Foxlee

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

There are those that hunt monsters to harm them and there are those that hunt monsters to help them… read more

Similar categories in Karen Foxlee's The Wrath of the Woolington Wyrm (Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters, #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fae’s Bride (Silveri Sisters, #1) by R.L. Medina

19. The Fae’s Bride (Silveri Sisters, #1)

By: R.L. Medina

3.53

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

A busy witch. An enamored count. An enchanted villa filled with nosy sisters. Alessia has more t… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Medina's The Fae’s Bride (Silveri Sisters, #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • fantasy
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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21. The Magic Hour

By: David Wolstencroft

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Ailsa Craig is always late! To everything - her own birth, school, and even her own… read more

Similar categories in David Wolstencroft's The Magic Hour book and Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Way Past Winter

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fantasy

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