15 best-selling middle grade books like The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

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The Night Bus Hero

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.15

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class …

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Parents' Choice Recommended From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exc… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure

2. 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

3. Time Travelling with a Hamster

By: Ross Welford

3.19

Format: 292 pages, ebook

"My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The… read more

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4. Pig-Heart Boy

By: Malorie Blackman

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

You're thirteen. All you want is a normal life. But most normal kids don't need heart transplants. … 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. Beetle Boy (The Battle of the Beetles #1)

By: M.G. Leonard

3.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The glorious start to a middle-grade trilogy about a brilliant boy, his loyal friends, and some ama… read more

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7. The Danger Gang

By: Tom Fletcher

4.23

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The electrifying new adventure from bestselling author of The Christmasaurus and The Creakers, Tom … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Všetko, čo nás spája: Príbeh slovenskej Vietnamky

By: Kvet Nguyen

4.59

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Už pri jej narodení sa vyskytli problémy s identitou, pridelili jej totiž nesprávne rodné číslo. Mo… read more

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9. The Doomsday Date

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.35

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An exclusive new World Book Day story from the bestselling author of ACE OF SPADES, Faridah Àbíké-Í… read more

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  • young adult
Cover of The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1) by M.G. Leonard

10. 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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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's Kidnap on the California Comet (Adventures on Trains, #2) book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Night Bus Hero

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. No Ballet Shoes in Syria

By: Catherine Bruton

4.42

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asyl… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • novels
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13. All the Pieces of Me

By: Libby Scott

4.42

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Year 8 can be tough for everyone, but for Tally it feels even tougher. Everything seems to be chang… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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14. 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
  • young adult
  • 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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15. 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
  • fiction
  • mystery
"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

Cover of The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

16. The Night Bus Hero

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.15

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class … read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Night Bus Hero book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Night Bus Hero

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Space Band

By: Tom Fletcher

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The out-of-this-world new adventure from number-one-bestselling author of The Danger Gang and The T… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Land of Roar

By: Jenny McLachlan

4.07

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Everyone remembers their secret imaginary world...but what if you discovered that yours was real? … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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
  • young adult
  • 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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20. Ella on the Outside

By: Cath Howe

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Ella is the new girl at school. She doesn't know anyone and she doesn't have any friends. And she h… read more

Similar categories in Cath Howe's Ella on the Outside book and Onjali Q. Raúf's The Night Bus Hero

  • novels
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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21. Head Kid

By: David Baddiel

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the million-copy bestselling author of THE PARENT AGENCY and BIRTHDAY BOY comes a wildly enter… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

14 Best fiction books like The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

Transform Your Habits

The Explorer

Katherine Rundell

4.83

Varjak Paw (Varjak Paw #1)

Dave McKean , S.F. Said

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Danger Gang

Tom Fletcher

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Highland Falcon Thief (Adventures on Trains, #1)

M.G. Leonard

4.28

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Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Peril in Paris (Taylor & Rose Secret Agents, #1)

Katherine Woodfine

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Willow Moss & the Lost Day (Starfell, #1)

Dominique Valente

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Frostheart (Frostheart, #1)

Jamie Littler

4.07

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