21 Top middle grade books like The Patron Thief of Bread by Lindsay Eagar

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The Patron Thief of Bread

By: Lindsay Eagar

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic—and gargoyles!—from the acclaimed author…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Patron Thief of Bread by Lindsay Eagar , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Last Mapmaker book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

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2. 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 Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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5. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Switch

By: Roland Smith

3.89

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the power goes out? And doesn't come back for days... weeks... even longer? Maste… read more

Similar categories in Roland Smith's The Switch book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • audiobook
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7. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Partridge's Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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8. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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9. Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1)

By: Kevin Sands

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Five kids with unusual talents are brought together to commit an impossible crime. A magic-infus… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sands's Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1) book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. The Secret Letters (Mysteries of Trash and Treasure #1)

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Colin and Nevaeh, whose parents own rival junk-removal businesses, uncover mysteries hidden in atti… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Secret Letters (Mysteries of Trash and Treasure #1) book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Elf Dog and Owl Head book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Ogress and the Orphans book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

Cover of Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee

14. Maizy Chen's Last Chance

By: Lisa Yee

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's Maizy Chen's Last Chance book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

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15. Omar Rising

By: Aisha Saeed

4.22

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him - the… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Saeed's Omar Rising book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Patron Thief of Bread by Lindsay Eagar

16. The Patron Thief of Bread

By: Lindsay Eagar

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic—and gargoyles!—from the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

By: Tae Keller

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A story about a girl who is alienated by her friends . . . for believing in aliens. Sometimes m… read more

Similar categories in Tae Keller's Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I had to make her understand that this mattered--what people thought had everything to do with who she was. Because how do we know who we are without knowing our place in the world?"

-Tae Keller, Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

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19. Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

By: Caela Carter

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An own voices story that shines a light on how one girl's learning differences are neither right no… read more

Similar categories in Caela Carter's Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Singing with Elephants

By: Margarita Engle

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about the friendship between a young girl and the poet Gabriela Mistral that leads… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's Singing with Elephants book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
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21. Black Bird, Blue Road

By: Sofiya Pasternack

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award fin… read more

Similar categories in Sofiya Pasternack's Black Bird, Blue Road book and Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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4.28

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