20 must-read middle grade books like Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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Winterkill

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust

By: Lois Metzger , Lola Rein Kaufman

4.04

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

When her mother is killed by the Gestapo, a Jewish girl named Lola is sent into hiding. At first, L… read more

Similar categories in Lois Metzger's The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade

2. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By: Alan Gratz

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Irela… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

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3. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Rescue book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • ukraine
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Fort

By: Gordon Korman

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Fort book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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6. Two Degrees

By: Alan Gratz

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is ridin… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Two Degrees book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • survival
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and it's mother. Momma Bear will wreck you."

-Alan Gratz, Two Degrees

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7. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Iceberg book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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9. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacua… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Heiligman's Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • survival
  • middle grade
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10. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Words on Fire book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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12. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust

By: Renee Hartman

4.01

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

RENEE: I was ten years old then, and my sister was eight. The responsibility was on me to warn ever… read more

Similar categories in Renee Hartman's Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
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15. Escape from East Berlin (Escape From #2)

By: Andy Marino

3.82

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

A historical thriller, chronicling two daring attempts to cross the Berlin Wall, set decades apart.… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from East Berlin (Escape From #2) book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Escape from Chernobyl

By: Andy Marino

3.83

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From Andy Marino, author of The Plot to Kill Hitler series, comes another fast-paced historical thr… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from Chernobyl book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's not merely that life is fragile- but the plans we make, the paths we plot, all of it so easily thrown off course."

-Andy Marino, Escape from Chernobyl

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17. Escape from Stalingrad (Escape From #3)

By: Andy Marino

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the author of Escape from Chernobyl comes another fast-paced historical thriller about a city … read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from Stalingrad (Escape From #3) book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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18. Resistance

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Resistance book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"In the knowing, there was peace."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

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19. Winterkill

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • survival
  • canada
  • school
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • ukraine
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Ghostlight

By: Kenneth Oppel

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One teen's summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidenta… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth Oppel's Ghostlight book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • canada
  • young adult
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21. Controlled Burn

By: Erin Soderberg Downing

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Maia’s parents say she’s lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to … read more

Similar categories in Erin Soderberg Downing's Controlled Burn book and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

16 must-read fiction books like Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Transform Your Habits

Rescue

Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Fort

Gordon Korman

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Two Degrees

Alan Gratz

4.15

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14 Best audiobook books like Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" by Deborah Heiligman

Transform Your Habits

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Rescue

Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Two Degrees

Alan Gratz

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

Alan Gratz

4.24

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