20 best-selling childrens books like Like a Curse by Elle McNicoll

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Like a Curse

By: Elle McNicoll

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Stuck in Loch Ness while Edinburgh falls under the control of a terrifyingly powerful Siren, Ramya …

If you liked the childrens plot in Like a Curse by Elle McNicoll , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Who Let the Gods Out? (Who Let the Gods Out?, #1)

By: Maz Evans , Mary Evans

3.44

Format: 96 pages,

Elliot's mum is ill and his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth and changes … read more

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2. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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4. Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5)

By: Thomas Taylor

4.47

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Herbie and Violet's fifth gripping adventure brings the internationally bestselling Eerie-on-Sea se… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Taylor's Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. The Last Bookwanderer (Pages & Co., #6)

By: Anna James

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The Pages and Co. series comes to a thrilling end in this perfect final instalment. As Tilly, Os… read more

Similar categories in Anna James's The Last Bookwanderer (Pages & Co., #6) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. Festergrimm (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #4)

By: Thomas Taylor

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Herbie and Violet's arch-enemy Sebastian Eels turns up in Eerie-on-Sea, seemingly back from th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Taylor's Festergrimm (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #4) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Britain is at war and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Acti… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Ministry of Unladylike Activity book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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8. The Tale of Truthwater Lake

By: Emma Carroll

4.21

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie… read more

Similar categories in Emma Carroll's The Tale of Truthwater Lake book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. The Very Merry Murder Club

By: Serena Patel

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A wintery middle grade mystery collection of short stories by thirteen of the most exciting and div… read more

Similar categories in Serena Patel's The Very Merry Murder Club book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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10. The Ice Children

By: M.G. Leonard

3.95

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The Week Junior Book Awards: Children’s Audiobook of the Year – Highly Commended. At the stroke … read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's The Ice Children book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2)

By: Hannah Gold

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unmissable follow-up to the award-winning  The Last Bear— perfect for fans of Rosanne Parry and… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gold's Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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12. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

By: Robin Stevens

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, … read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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13. Jamie

By: L.D. Lapinski

4.46

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful and uplifting story from L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, abou… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Lapinski's Jamie book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Being trans is fine, it's the world that's the problem. And that's what people don't seem to get. There are loads of us as well. Whether you make room for us or not, whether you accept us or not, whe…"

-L.D. Lapinski, Jamie

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14. 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

Similar categories in Katya Balen's The Light in Everything book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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15. The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5)

By: Anna James

4.17

Format: None pages, None

A magical botanist A peculiar potion A secret garden A famous monster A return to the underlibr… read more

Similar categories in Anna James's The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. Like a Curse

By: Elle McNicoll

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Stuck in Loch Ness while Edinburgh falls under the control of a terrifyingly powerful Siren, Ramya … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • disability
  • audiobook
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17. Clutch (The Twitchers, #3)

By: M.G. Leonard

4.46

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Can The Twitchers catch a thief? There's a thief in Aves Wood! M.G. Leonard, internationally bes… read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's Clutch (The Twitchers, #3) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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18. Glitter Boy

By: Ian Eagleton

4.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old James loves dancing, poetry and Mariah Carey. His teacher, Mr Hamilton, is getting … read more

Similar categories in Ian Eagleton's Glitter Boy book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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19. I Am Rebel

By: Montgomery Ross

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Montgomery Ross's I Am Rebel book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

20. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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21. Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend

By: Lizzie Huxley-Jones

4.45

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

“The problem with growing up listening to bedtime stories about monsters, magic and myth is that yo… read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Huxley-Jones's Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend book and Elle McNicoll's Like a Curse

  • childrens
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • disability

17 best-selling fiction books like Like a Curse by Elle McNicoll

Transform Your Habits

Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5)

Thomas Taylor

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Last Bookwanderer (Pages & Co., #6)

Anna James

4.25

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20 Best fiction books like The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens

The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #2)

Katherine Woodfine

4.01

Transform Your Habits

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

Katherine Woodfine

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Last Bookwanderer (Pages & Co., #6)

Anna James

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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

M.G. Leonard

4.28

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