9 must-read historical fiction books like Sparrows in the Wind by Gail Carson Levine

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Sparrows in the Wind

By: Gail Carson Levine

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This latest novel from Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine about two princesses battling agains…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Sparrows in the Wind by Gail Carson Levine , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

By: Jessica Day George

4.11

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Tuesdays at Castle Glower are Princess Celie's favorite days. That's because on Tuesdays the castle… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Day George's Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia." "And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days."

-Jessica Day George, Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

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2. Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

By: Barbara Cohen , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot--Buran will not--sit quiet… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Cohen's Seven Daughters and Seven Sons book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy

3. A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1)

By: E.K. Johnston

3.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she … read more

Similar categories in E.K. Johnston's A Thousand Nights (A Thousand Nights, #1) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult

4. Waste of Space

By: Gina Damico

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived re… read more

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5. Frogkisser!

By: Garth Nix

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The last thing she needs is a prince. The first thing she needs is some magic. Poor Princess Anya. … read more

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6. Midnight in Austenland (Austenland, #2)

By: Shannon Hale

3.07

Format: None pages,

When Charlotte Kinder treats herself to a two-week vacation at Austenland, she happily leaves behin… read more

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7. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slugfest book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse wh… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • 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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10. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

By: Beth Lincoln

4.06

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels

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11. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Santat's A First Time for Everything book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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13. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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14. Leeva at Last

By: Sara Pennypacker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tale about a precocious girl who transforms her community in surprising ways. What are people … read more

Similar categories in Sara Pennypacker's Leeva at Last book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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15. Seekers of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #2)

By: Kevin Sands

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dying friend, a terrible bargain, an underwater quest, and dangerous magic . . . this adventure p… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sands's Seekers of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #2) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Hoops: A Graphic Novel

By: Matt Tavares

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares’s debut graphic novel dramatizes the histo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Tavares's Hoops: A Graphic Novel book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Best of Friends (The Huntresses, #4)

By: Sarah M. Eden

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Daria Mullins just accomplished the seemingly she successfully convinced her parents to grant her … read more

Similar categories in Sarah M. Eden's The Best of Friends (The Huntresses, #4) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Alebrijes

By: Donna Barba Higuera

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning T… read more

Similar categories in Donna Barba Higuera's Alebrijes book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. The Marvellers (The Conjureverse, #1)

By: Dhonielle Clayton

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Author Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magi… read more

Similar categories in Dhonielle Clayton's The Marvellers (The Conjureverse, #1) book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Those Kids from Fawn Creek

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Every day in Fawn Creek, Louisiana, is exactly the same--until Orchid Mason arrives. This contempor… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's Those Kids from Fawn Creek book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The School for Whatnots

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From master of suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes another page-turning stand-alone adve… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Peterson Haddix's The School for Whatnots book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Amber and Clay

By: Laura Amy Schlitz

4.13

Format: 527 pages, Hardcover

The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performanc… read more

Similar categories in Laura Amy Schlitz's Amber and Clay book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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26. Sparrows in the Wind

By: Gail Carson Levine

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This latest novel from Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine about two princesses battling agains… read more

Similar categories in Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • retellings
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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27. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • retellings
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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28. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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29. 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 Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Heiress Takes All by Emily Wibberley

30. Heiress Takes All

By: Emily Wibberley

3.56

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's 11 in this thrilling YA adventure about a teenager determined t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's Heiress Takes All book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code by Rebecca E.F. Barone

31. Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code

By: Rebecca E.F. Barone

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Unbreakable is the true story of the codebreakers, spies, and navy men who cracked the Nazis’ infam… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca E.F. Barone's Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code book and Gail Carson Levine's Sparrows in the Wind

  • historical
  • middle grade

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Jessica Day George

4.11

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4.12

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E.K. Johnston

3.09

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Gordon Korman

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