25 must-read middle grade books like Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4) by Peter Bunzl

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Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Swept into the bright hustle and bustle of New York, Lily, Robert and Malkin discover shadowy secre…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4) by Peter Bunzl , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1) by Enid Blyton

1. First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Darrell Rivers begins her happy life at Malory Towers two terms later than the other girls, but she… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure
Cover of The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell, Gelrev Ongbico

2. The Wolf Wilder

By: Katherine Rundell , Gelrev Ongbico

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplace… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Stories can start revolutions."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Hard work always hurts somewhere."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves are the witches of the animal world."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

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3. The Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Parents' Choice Recommended From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exc… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Explorer book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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5. Journey to the River Sea

By: Kevin Hawkes , Eva Ibbotson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, En… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Hawkes's Journey to the River Sea book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good."

-Kevin Hawkes, Journey to the River Sea

6. Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)

By: Robin Stevens

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays… read more

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7. Scorpia Rising

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to… read more

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8. First Class Murder: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery

By: Robin Stevens

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday through Europe on the world-famous Orient Express. … read more

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9. A Place Called Perfect

By: Karl James Mountford , Helena Duggan

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Violet never wanted to move to Perfect. Who wants to live in a town where everyone has to wear glas… read more

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10. Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)

By: Robin Stevens

4.48

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

'The whole theatre seemed on edge. There was a feverish atmosphere seeping into every corner of the… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father,…"

-Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)

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11. The Book Smugglers (Pages & Co., #4)

By: Anna James

4.12

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Fourth in the modern-classic and bestselling bookwandering series for ages eight to twelve that cel… read more

Similar categories in Anna James's The Book Smugglers (Pages & Co., #4) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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12. The House with Chicken Legs

By: Sophie Anderson

4.10

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sur… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The House with Chicken Legs book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"But it’s our duty as Yaga, living in this Yaga house, to talk to them and give them one last wonderful evening reliving their memories and celebrating their lives, before they pass through The Gate a…"

-Sophie Anderson, The House with Chicken Legs

Cover of The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates) by Sam Sedgman

13. The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates)

By: Sam Sedgman

4.30

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockw… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sedgman's The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
Cover of Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5) by Thomas     Taylor

14. 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 Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Which Way Round the Galaxy (Which Way to Anywhere, #2) by Cressida Cowell

15. Which Way Round the Galaxy (Which Way to Anywhere, #2)

By: Cressida Cowell

4.40

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

Hold on tight for the sequel to this out-of-this-world new series from former Waterstones Children'… read more

Similar categories in Cressida Cowell's Which Way Round the Galaxy (Which Way to Anywhere, #2) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8) by Robin Stevens

16. Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8)

By: Robin Stevens

4.35

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell

17. The Good Thieves

By: Katherine Rundell

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling tale of wild hope, lingering grief, admirable self-sufficiency, and intergenerational a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Good Thieves book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"It is difficult to sleep when you are besieged by hope."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"He was not tall or broad, but when he grinned it was so vivid that he appeared to take up most of the street and at least half the sky."

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

"To throw the knife would be death...She wanted nothing to do with death--nothing to do with finality, with endings, with the dark of it. She hated the man more than she hated any living thing, but he…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Good Thieves

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18. The Castle of Tangled Magic

By: Sophie Anderson

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Magic and whimsy meet in this Howl's Moving Castle for a new generation from the critically adored … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Castle of Tangled Magic book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"To live is to make mistakes. I didn't understand her then, but I do now. Making mistakes means we're trying and doing and adventuring and learning. They mean we're living."

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

"It's hard for humans to keep their belief in magic as they grow older. You want to understand things, so you build ideas of what the world is in your minds, then reject anything that doesn't fit into…"

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

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19. 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 Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Arkspire (Arkspire, #1) by Jamie Littler

20. Arkspire (Arkspire, #1)

By: Jamie Littler

4.38

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Glorious, powerful, magic; a city of twists, turns and tricksters; extraordinary secrets which only… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Littler's Arkspire (Arkspire, #1) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens

21. 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 Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of A Sprinkle of Sorcery (A Pinch of Magic, #2) by Michelle Harrison

22. A Sprinkle of Sorcery (A Pinch of Magic, #2)

By: Michelle Harrison

4.15

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The family curse has been lifted and the Widdershins sisters: Betty, Fliss and Charlie are free to … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Harrison's A Sprinkle of Sorcery (A Pinch of Magic, #2) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Treehouse Library (Pages & Co.,#5) by Anna     James

23. 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 Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Dragon Mountain (Dragon Realm, #1) by Katie Tsang

24. Dragon Mountain (Dragon Realm, #1)

By: Katie Tsang

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Deep within the mountain, a great creature stirred in its sleep. Its eyes rolled back in its head, … read more

Similar categories in Katie Tsang's Dragon Mountain (Dragon Realm, #1) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll

25. Like a Charm

By: Elle McNicoll

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them... until Ramya Knox. As … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Like a Charm book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Exactly. These stories about fairies and giants and vampires and trolls... they may have written them completely wrong. But you're still more likely to find a magical monster in a story than someone …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Ramya, your brain...it's why you can see through Glamour. It's why you're immune to Sirens. It's...it's incredible. I wish I were like you. I've never met anyone that can do what you do. I swear. It …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Books are like little pockets of time. Little artifacts from other cultures and other periods of history. You can go to a museum where they put everything behind glass and won't let you touch things.…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Maybe you don't need the whole world. Maybe you don't need a fridge full of gold stars. You don't need to fit the mold. You just need one person who believes you're right, just as you are. That the g…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

Cover of Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4) by Peter Bunzl

26. Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Swept into the bright hustle and bustle of New York, Lily, Robert and Malkin discover shadowy secre… read more

Similar categories in Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of The Letter with the Golden Stamp by Onjali Q. Raúf

27. The Letter with the Golden Stamp

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.52

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps. But I've got a whole shoebo… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Letter with the Golden Stamp book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Wonderscape (Wonderscape, #1) by Jennifer Bell

28. Wonderscape (Wonderscape, #1)

By: Jennifer Bell

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Arthur, Ren and Cecily investigate a mysterious explosion on their way to school, they find th… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Bell's Wonderscape (Wonderscape, #1) book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Shadow Fox by Carlie Sorosiak

29. Shadow Fox

By: Carlie Sorosiak

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Bee’s family runs a lakeside inn, offering rest and sustenance to weary travellers. Bee’s Nan has g… read more

Similar categories in Carlie Sorosiak's Shadow Fox book and Peter Bunzl's Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)

  • middle grade
  • fantasy

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Enid Blyton

4.13

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4.07

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Katherine Rundell

4.83

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Robin Stevens

4.21

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Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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Sam Sedgman

4.30

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