17 Best middle grade books like The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Raúf

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The Star Outside My Window

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.32

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

My mum is up there somewhere. She's waiting -- I can feel it. I just have to find her in time, that…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Raúf , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. Varjak Paw (Varjak Paw #1)

By: Dave McKean , S.F. Said

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mesopotamian Blue cat, Varjak Paw, has never been Outside before; he and his family have always liv… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure

2. What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible

By: Ross Welford

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

From the author of the unforgettable bestseller TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER comes another surpri… read more

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3. Letters from the Lighthouse

By: Emma Carroll

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, no… read more

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4. Rooftoppers

By: Katherine Rundell

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from … read more

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5. Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. . . . Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is m… read more

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6. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1)

By: M.G. Leonard

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1, a middle-grade series starter from MG Leonar… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
"It's hard to have an adventure with a smart phone in your pocket. It stops you from reading real maps and talking to people."

-M.G. Leonard, The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1)

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8. Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Trains, #2)

By: M.G. Leonard

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this second book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travel… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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9. The Girl Who Speaks Bear

By: Sophie Anderson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, 12-year-old Yanka has always felt out of place in her sma… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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10. When I See Blue

By: Lily Bailey

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

New town, new school, but the bully is in Ben's head ... There are 4 things you should know abou… read more

Similar categories in Lily Bailey's When I See Blue book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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11. Escape Room

By: Christopher Edge

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it’s just a game – the ultimate escape r… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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12. Into the Sideways World

By: Ross Welford

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

When twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are det… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
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13. The 1,000 Year Old Boy

By: Ross Welford

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • novels
"Would you like to live forever? I’m afraid I cannot recommend it. I am used to it now, and I do understand how special it is. Only I want to stop now. I want to grow up like you."

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

"I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drench…"

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

"I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drench…"

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

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14. The Good Thieves

By: Katherine Rundell

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational a… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
"It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

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15. The Star Outside My Window

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.32

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

My mum is up there somewhere. She's waiting -- I can feel it. I just have to find her in time, that… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • fostering
  • middle grade
  • death
  • fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • space
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16. The Light in Everything

By: Katya Balen

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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17. The Other Edie Trimmer

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new middle-grade novel from the bestselling Jacqueline Wilson!"I seemed to be seeing do… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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18. Can You See Me?

By: Libby Scott

4.28

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age story about learning to celebrate yourself -- and teaching the world to recognize y… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
"Actually, the more I think about it, the more I figure that a lot of the cons of autism are not really caused by autism, but by how other people react to it."

-Libby Scott, Can You See Me?

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19. A Girl Called Justice (Justice Jones, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.09

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for... For a fearless girl called Justic… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Secrets of a Sun King

By: Emma Carroll

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

THE BOOKSELLER'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE MONTH AUGUST 201… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
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21. A Different Sort of Normal

By: Abigail Balfe

4.39

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

*The beautiful true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced … read more

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  • middle grade
"Because if someone had told me when I was younger that it was OK to not be like everybody else, that it was not my job to try to be "normal" and to "fit in," that my way of seeing the world was just …"

-Abigail Balfe, A Different Sort of Normal

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4.28

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