5 must-read middle grade books like Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

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Unraveller

By: Frances Hardinge

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Fra…

"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and it'll be as if it always was that way."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and it'll be as if it always was that way."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

If you liked the middle grade plot in Unraveller by Frances Hardinge , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

2. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

4. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Lumara

By: Melissa Landers

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The answers lie within. Boarding school student Talia Morris has no idea her boyfriend, Nathaniel,… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Landers's Lumara book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • magic
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.29

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe launched her career and in the years since has become a beloved favo… read more

Similar categories in Darcie Little Badger's Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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9. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
Cover of Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

10. Unraveller

By: Frances Hardinge

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Fra… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Unraveller book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and i…"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd know you were a boy, so she would too. If someone knows they're a man or boy, that's what matters. Outside appearences aren't important. It's what's inside that counts—who we are in our souls. …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

11. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Liberty's Daughter book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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12. Stateless

By: Elizabeth Wein

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set in 1937 Europe with intrigue, glamour, secrets, and betrayal. When Stella Nort… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wein's Stateless book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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13. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Wild Song

By: Candy Gourlay

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

The year is 1904. Luki has lived a tribal life in the mountains of the Philippines. Now she's growi… read more

Similar categories in Candy Gourlay's Wild Song book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fiction
Cover of Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3) by Charlie Jane Anders

15. Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Promises Stronger Than Darkness marks the final installment of the international bestselling author… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Some heartache can only be cured by justice."

-Charlie Jane Anders, Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

Cover of The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

16. The Year Without Sunshine

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.23

Format: 35 pages, ebook

Hugo Voter Packet edition. read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's The Year Without Sunshine book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

17. Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO. Abeni's Song by award-winning… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1) by Michelle A. Barry

18. Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1)

By: Michelle A. Barry

4.26

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Failed climate change policy, an intergalactic conspiracy, and the magical, unlikely heroine who co… read more

Similar categories in Michelle A. Barry's Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1) book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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19. Ghosts Come Rising

By: Adam Perry

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the mid 19th century, a religious movement called Spiritualism spread across America. Spirituali… read more

Similar categories in Adam Perry's Ghosts Come Rising book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

20. The Puttermans Are in the House

By: Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and hopeful middle grade novel from Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, author of the Junior Libr… read more

Similar categories in Jacquetta Nammar Feldman's The Puttermans Are in the House book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker by J.P.  Rose

21. The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

By: J.P. Rose

3.90

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

After a shocking event leaves Tyrese struggling with grief, he’s taken to visit family in Jamaica. … read more

Similar categories in J.P. Rose's The Haunting of Tyrese Walker book and Frances Hardinge's Unraveller

  • young adult
  • horror

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