9 best-selling middle grade books like The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac, James Watling

Cover of The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac, James Watling

The Arrow Over the Door

By: Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

To fourteen-year-old Samuel Russell, called "coward" for his peace-loving Quaker beliefs, the summe…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac, James Watling , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

By: Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his … read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The King's Fifth

By: Scott O'Dell

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A 1967 Newbery Honor Book  While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the oblig… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. "But Don't All Religions Lead to God?"

By: Michael Green

3.72

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

We've all heard the "It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere." Or "All religi… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
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4. The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

By: Deborah Ellis

4.00

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from … read more

Similar categories in Deborah Ellis's The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1) book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We have to remember this,"

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

"They were going to turn her into a boy."

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

"These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by."

-Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)

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5. The Iron Peacock

By: Mary Stetson Clarke

3.86

Format: 240 pages,

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  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac, James Watling

6. The Arrow Over the Door

By: Joseph Bruchac , James Watling

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

To fourteen-year-old Samuel Russell, called "coward" for his peace-loving Quaker beliefs, the summe… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • american history
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Homeless Bird

By: Gloria Whelan

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married.… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Whelan's Homeless Bird book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

By: Esther Hautzig

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

It is June 1941. The Rudomin family has been arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists' enemi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Mary Jones and Her Bible

By: Mary Emily Ropes

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Heartwarming, real life story of Mary Jones, a young girl living in rural Wales in the late 1700s. … read more

Similar categories in Mary Emily Ropes's Mary Jones and Her Bible book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • childrens
  • school
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10. The Sherwood Ring

By: Elizabeth Marie Pope

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral e… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11. The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (The Story of the World #4)

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolutio… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wise Bauer's The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR (The Story of the World #4) book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • historical
  • childrens
  • school

12. Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners (The Story of the World #3)

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives--and our children need to learn… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wise Bauer's Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners (The Story of the World #3) book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • historical
  • childrens
  • school
Cover of The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London by Elvira Woodruff

13. The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London

By: Elvira Woodruff

3.95

Format: None pages,

Forrest lives at the Tower of London prison, where his father tends the Tower ravens and guards inm… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection

By: Michael Rosen , Paul Howard

3.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An ideal gift book for children and adults, this beautiful keepsake volume is the essential collect… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Classic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • childrens
Cover of God's Smuggler by John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill, Brother Andrew

15. God's Smuggler

By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Brother Andrew

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself underco… read more

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16. A Murder for Her Majesty

By: Beth Hilgartner

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen … read more

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  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

17. Angel on the Square (Angel on the Square, #1)

By: Gloria Whelan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place… read more

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18. The Good Master

By: Kate Seredy

4.14

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his fath… read more

Similar categories in Kate Seredy's The Good Master book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

19. Snow Treasure

By: Marie McSwigan , None

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom's tiny Norwegian village a… read more

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20. Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

By: Kristina Rodanas , Alex W. Bealer

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to ex… read more

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21. Betsy and the Emperor

By: Staton Rabin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Nap… read more

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22. Escape Across the Wide Sea

By: Katherine Kirkpatrick

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, Daniel Bonnet, a young Huguenot boy, and hi… read more

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23. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Detective, #1)

By: Dorothy Hoobler , Thomas Hoobler

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a… read more

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24. Year of Impossible Goodbyes

By: Sook Nyul Choi

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It is 1945, and courageous ten-year-old Sookan and her family must endure the cruelties of the Japa… read more

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25. Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a … read more

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26. Master Cornhill

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Victim of both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, a homeless, penniless eleven-year-old… read more

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27. The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

By: Deborah Hopkinson

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

"A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventu… read more

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28. Johnny Tremain

By: Lynd Ward , Esther Forbes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 B… read more

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29. The Singing Tree

By: Kate Seredy

3.50

Format: 306 pages,

Life on the Hungarian plains us changing quickly for Jancsi and his cousin Kate. Father has given J… read more

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30. Toliver's Secret

By: Esther Wood Brady

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more

Similar categories in Esther Wood Brady's Toliver's Secret book and Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door

  • american history
  • childrens
  • school
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

31. Banner in the Sky

By: James Ramsey Ullman

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

The Citadel It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared t… read more

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Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

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Scott O'Dell

3.66

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Michael Green

3.72

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Deborah Ellis

4.00

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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II

Darlene Deibler Rose

4.50

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3.54

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Susan Wise Bauer

3.74

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Janet Benge , Geoff Benge

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