13 Best middle grade books like The Bookseller's Apprentice by Amelia Mellor

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The Bookseller's Apprentice

By: Amelia Mellor

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Return to Amelia Mellor’s magical Melbourne in the prequel to best-seller The Grandest Bookshop in …

"Summer came in November, and it came in blazing"

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"Summer came in November, and it came in blazing"

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"It felt as large as an orange and as heavy as grief."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"It felt as large as an orange and as heavy as grief."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Bookseller's Apprentice by Amelia Mellor , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Two Wolves

By: Tristan Bancks

3.40

Format: None pages,

One afternoon, police officers show up at Ben Silver's front door. Minutes after they leave, his pa… read more

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2. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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3. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

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"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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5. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fiction
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6. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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8. 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 Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fiction
  • young adult
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10. Scar Town

By: Tristan Bancks

4.04

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Bancks's Scar Town book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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11. Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt

3.40

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Selby hates homework. She would rather watch daytime television – anything to escape the tedium of … read more

Similar categories in R.A. Spratt's Hamlet is Not OK book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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12. Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Silver Linings

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's Silver Linings book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
"How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?"

-Katrina Nannestad, Silver Linings

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14. The Quiet and the Loud

By: Helena Fox

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from … read more

Similar categories in Helena Fox's The Quiet and the Loud book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fiction
  • young adult
"And for a moment - here, now - we aren't the pregnant girl or the quiet girl. We aren't scared of death, or of memories oozing out of the dark. We are two girls, suspended. Timeless. Immense. Untouch…"

-Helena Fox, The Quiet and the Loud

Cover of Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad

15. Waiting for the Storks

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the … read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's Waiting for the Storks book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Bookseller's Apprentice by Amelia Mellor

16. The Bookseller's Apprentice

By: Amelia Mellor

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Return to Amelia Mellor’s magical Melbourne in the prequel to best-seller The Grandest Bookshop in … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Summer came in November, and it came in blazing"

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"It felt as large as an orange and as heavy as grief."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"The free reading wasn't a gimmick to bring customers back after all. It was a small, secret, gentle revolution. Oh, that Mr Cole was clever."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

"History arranged everything that had ever happened into one epic tale of humankind. It turned scattered bones back into people and broken objects into stories."

-Amelia Mellor, The Bookseller's Apprentice

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17. Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1)

By: Jordan Gould

3.87

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Meet Wylah: warrior, hero and friend. Her adventures have been 40,000 years in the making! Wylah… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Gould's Guardians (Wylah the Koorie Warrior #1) book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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18. The Lorikeet Tree

By: Paul Jennings

3.79

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A sister and brother face the hardest year of their lives and discover the healing power of nature … read more

Similar categories in Paul Jennings's The Lorikeet Tree book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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19. Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon

By: Gabrielle Wang

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Zadie Ma has a special talent for telling stories . . . and it seems that some of Zadie’s stories c… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Wang's Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Secret of Lillian Velvet (Kingdoms and Empires) by Jaclyn Moriarty

20. The Secret of Lillian Velvet (Kingdoms and Empires)

By: Jaclyn Moriarty

4.42

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit t… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Moriarty's The Secret of Lillian Velvet (Kingdoms and Empires) book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"I gave that "shove" a chapter all to itself, as I was annoyed with it."

-Jaclyn Moriarty, The Secret of Lillian Velvet (Kingdoms and Empires)

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21. The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat (Trilby Moffat #1)

By: Kate Temple

4.05

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

This is the dangerous story of Trilby Moffat, who took on one of the most treacherous jobs of all t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Temple's The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat (Trilby Moffat #1) book and Amelia Mellor's The Bookseller's Apprentice

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

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4.13

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3.77

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Katherine Woodfine

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4.16

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Anna James

4.25

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