9 must-read fantasy books like The Miraculous by Jess Redman

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The Miraculous

By: Jess Redman

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records st…

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Cover of Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1) by Noel Streatfeild, Diane Goode

1. Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1)

By: Noel Streatfeild , Diane Goode

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Pauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their new family by joining the Childr… read more

Similar categories in Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1) book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

2. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

3. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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4. Remember Us

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply in… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Remember Us book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) by Dan Gemeinhart

5. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

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6. Free Lunch

By: Rex Ogle

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a w… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Free Lunch book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • middle grade
  • family
  • audiobook
"I don't know why, but I don't trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it costs me a lot."

-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch

"On the back, it has the address, and says, free lunch! A chill runs up my spine. I don’t know why, but I don’t trust the word free anymore. Lunch here is supposed to be free, but it feels like it cos…"

-Rex Ogle, Free Lunch

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7. 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 Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • 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

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8. 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 Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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9. Everything Else in the Universe

By: Tracy Holczer

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family sto… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Three Strike Summer

By: Skyler Schrempp

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Four starred reviews! A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection A Horn Book Magazine Be… read more

Similar categories in Skyler Schrempp's Three Strike Summer book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Winter King

By: Christine Cohen

4.38

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A village trapped in winter, a tyrannical god, and a girl who will do anything to keep her family a… read more

Similar categories in Christine Cohen's The Winter King book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Honestly Elliott

By: Gillian McDunn

4.33

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McDunn's Honestly Elliott book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"

-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott

Cover of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

13. The Parker Inheritance

By: Varian Johnson

4.18

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's… read more

Similar categories in Varian Johnson's The Parker Inheritance book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Brandon said. “I guess I like boy books."

-Varian Johnson, The Parker Inheritance

"It’s just … I don’t think there’s such a thing as boy books or girl books. I think there are people books."

-Varian Johnson, The Parker Inheritance

"His eyes widened and his mouth dropped open a little. "You like puzzle books and you haven't read The Westing Game ?!' he yelled."

-Varian Johnson, The Parker Inheritance

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14. 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 Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone

15. Live, Laugh, Kidnap

By: Gabby Noone

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Layoverland comes another bitingly clever, laugh-out-loud funny novel, about a g… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Noone's Live, Laugh, Kidnap book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Rewind

By: Lisa Graff

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Back to the Future meets When You Reach Me in this powerful novel by National Book Award nominee Li… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Graff's Rewind book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't think you can ever really know if what you're doing is the right thing or not. I mean, that's true for everyone…so what you gotta do now is ask yourself if you're more afraid of doing somethi…"

-Lisa Graff, Rewind

"Even if you weren't a time traveler, anything you did in life was going to lead to some kind of change. And really, there was no way for you to know what that change would be before it happened. You …"

-Lisa Graff, Rewind

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17. Treasure in the Lake

By: Jason Pamment

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Grand adventures stories often begin where you least expect them… Iris knows this because she’s re… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pamment's Treasure in the Lake book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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18. The Miraculous

By: Jess Redman

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records st… read more

Similar categories in Jess Redman's The Miraculous book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by Mary Averling

19. The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

By: Mary Averling

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of mon… read more

Similar categories in Mary Averling's The Curse of Eelgrass Bog book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Area 51 Files (The Area 51 Files #1) by Julie Buxbaum

20. The Area 51 Files (The Area 51 Files #1)

By: Julie Buxbaum

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Aliens, sassy hedgehogs, and unexplained disappearances . . . Oh, my! When Sky Patel-Baum is sen… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's The Area 51 Files (The Area 51 Files #1) book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Between the Lighthouse and You by Michelle Lee

21. Between the Lighthouse and You

By: Michelle Lee

4.18

Format: None pages, None

A debut middle-grade novel about a town that can receive messages from the dead, and the young boy … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Lee's Between the Lighthouse and You book and Jess Redman's The Miraculous

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • fantasy

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