16 Top middle grade books like The Piano at the Station by Helen Rutter

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The Piano at the Station

By: Helen Rutter

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Lacey's smart tongue and quick temper are constantly getting her confined to isolation at school. B…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Piano at the Station by Helen Rutter , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. 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 Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • family
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • school
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2. Crossing the Line

By: Tia Fisher

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more

Similar categories in Tia Fisher's Crossing the Line book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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3. Choose Love

By: Nicola Davies

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. … read more

Similar categories in Nicola Davies's Choose Love book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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4. Steady For This

By: Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

MEET MC GROWLS, WANNABE RAPPER AND STAR OF THE SHOW IN THIS HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING TEEN DEBUT. … read more

Similar categories in Nathanael Lessore's Steady For This book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
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5. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

Similar categories in Joseph Coelho's The Boy Lost in the Maze book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • family
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6. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

Similar categories in Hiba Noor Khan's Safiyyah's War book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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7. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • school
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8. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

By: Josh Silver

4.04

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more

Similar categories in Josh Silver's HappyHead (HappyHead, #1) book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
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9. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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10. City of Stolen Magic

By: Nazneen Ahmed Pathak

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An action-packed, inclusive and breathtakingly magical middle-grade adventure, for fans of THE UNAD… read more

Similar categories in Nazneen Ahmed Pathak's City of Stolen Magic book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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11. This Book Kills

By: Ravena Guron

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

I'll make it clear from the I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help…Well, not inte… read more

Similar categories in Ravena Guron's This Book Kills book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
  • school
"My story, my words, my voice – they are priceless."

-Ravena Guron, This Book Kills

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12. The Song Walker

By: Zillah Bethell

4.16

Format: None pages, None

"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more

Similar categories in Zillah Bethell's The Song Walker book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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13. Bad Influence

By: Tamsin Winter

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerfully real and funny new story from the rising queen of teen, about first kisses, learning t… read more

Similar categories in Tamsin Winter's Bad Influence book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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14. A Season for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #2)

By: Laura Wood

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

An all-female detective agency righting wrongs at the end of the nineteenth century; infiltrating a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Wood's A Season for Scandal (The Agency for Scandal, #2) book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
  • family
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15. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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16. Bigg School: Best Friends Forever

By: Lisa Williamson

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to BIGG SCHOOL! Lola and Evie have been BFF since they were babies. When Lola discovers … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Williamson's Bigg School: Best Friends Forever book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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17. Dread Wood (Dread Wood, #1)

By: Jennifer Killick

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Killick's Dread Wood (Dread Wood, #1) book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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18. Northern Soul

By: Phil Earle

4.10

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’s d… read more

Similar categories in Phil Earle's Northern Soul book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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19. Trapped

By: Sophie McKenzie

2.83

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

A dramatic coach crash forces Hailey to re-examine her relationships with her fellow singing-club m… read more

Similar categories in Sophie McKenzie's Trapped book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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20. Bite Risk

By: S.J. Wills

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Last Kids on Earth gets a lupine twist by way of Margaret Peterson Haddix in this eerie middle … read more

Similar categories in S.J. Wills's Bite Risk book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
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21. Sing If You Can't Dance

By: Alexia Casale

3.86

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Ven has her future all planned out. Her dance group is going places and so is she . . . Then she co… read more

Similar categories in Alexia Casale's Sing If You Can't Dance book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • psychology
  • family
  • fiction
  • school
Cover of SH!T BAG: a darkly funny story about life with an ostomy bag by Xena Knox

22. SH!T BAG: a darkly funny story about life with an ostomy bag

By: Xena Knox

4.14

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST NEW BOOKS OUT IN JUNE 2023'Funny, direct ... and romantic' - The Guardian'Compe… read more

Similar categories in Xena Knox's SH!T BAG: a darkly funny story about life with an ostomy bag book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • psychology
  • family
  • school
Cover of The Piano at the Station by Helen Rutter

23. The Piano at the Station

By: Helen Rutter

4.28

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Lacey's smart tongue and quick temper are constantly getting her confined to isolation at school. B… read more

Similar categories in Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • school
  • middle grade
  • psychology
  • family
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2) by Josh  Silver

24. Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2)

By: Josh Silver

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed… read more

Similar categories in Josh Silver's Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2) book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • fiction
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25. Code Name Kingfisher

By: Liz Kessler

4.58

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time… read more

Similar categories in Liz Kessler's Code Name Kingfisher book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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26. Jodie

By: Hilary McKay

3.70

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in thiseerily atmos… read more

Similar categories in Hilary McKay's Jodie book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • psychology
  • family
  • school
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27. Friends and Traitors

By: Helen Peters

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Some secrets are just too dangerous to know… A gripping World War II story about how two girls foil… read more

Similar categories in Helen Peters's Friends and Traitors book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
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28. The Wall Between Us

By: Dan Smith

4.23

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, 1961. Anja and Monika are best friends – they even share a cat called Otto. When a huge bar… read more

Similar categories in Dan Smith's The Wall Between Us book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
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29. The After School Crime Club

By: Hayley Webster

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Willow has always felt like an outsider at school, but she and her Nanna were so alike that she nev… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Webster's The After School Crime Club book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

  • middle grade
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30. Fallout

By: Lesley Parr

4.59

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Can Marcus escape the future his parents expect him to have? Or is his fate decided by his family? … read more

Similar categories in Lesley Parr's Fallout book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

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31. Swimming on the Moon

By: Brian Conaghan

3.90

Format: None pages, None

Twelve-year-old Anna's parents are going through a rough patch, but Anna can't let them split up. N… read more

Similar categories in Brian Conaghan's Swimming on the Moon book and Helen Rutter's The Piano at the Station

17 Top fiction books like The Piano at the Station by Helen Rutter

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

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16 Top fiction books like Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Steady For This

Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

View all the books

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