20 must-read fiction books like Ravencave by Marcus Sedgwick

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Ravencave

By: Marcus Sedgwick

3.76

Format: None pages, None

A grim discovery brings disturbing revelations in this chilling ghost story from the late Marcus Se…

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1. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Crossing the Line

By: Tia Fisher

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more

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  • contemporary
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3. Choose Love

By: Nicola Davies

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. … read more

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4. Steady For This

By: Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

MEET MC GROWLS, WANNABE RAPPER AND STAR OF THE SHOW IN THIS HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING TEEN DEBUT. … read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

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  • contemporary
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6. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

By: Josh Silver

4.04

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. Boy Like Me

By: Simon James Green

4.55

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1994 and thanks to Section 28, there can be no mention of gay relationships in schools. When a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of This Book Kills by Ravena Guron

11. This Book Kills

By: Ravena Guron

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

I'll make it clear from the I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help…Well, not inte… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My story, my words, my voice – they are priceless."

-Ravena Guron, This Book Kills

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12. The Song Walker

By: Zillah Bethell

4.16

Format: None pages, None

"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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13. Dogs of the Deadlands

By: Anthony McGowan

4.13

Format: 352 pages, ebook

‘This book! It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again. Full of hope and love and w… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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14. Needle

By: Patrice Lawrence

3.69

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Northern Soul

By: Phil Earle

4.10

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’s d… read more

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16. Trapped

By: Sophie McKenzie

2.83

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

A dramatic coach crash forces Hailey to re-examine her relationships with her fellow singing-club m… read more

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17. Bite Risk

By: S.J. Wills

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Last Kids on Earth gets a lupine twist by way of Margaret Peterson Haddix in this eerie middle … read more

Similar categories in S.J. Wills's Bite Risk book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • paranormal
  • horror
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18. Every Word A Lie

By: Sue Wallman

3.78

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

  Award-winning author Sue Wallman tells a nail-biting story of a catfishing prank that gets out o… read more

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19. Until The Road Ends

By: Phil Earle

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky T… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros

4.16

Format: 156 pages, ebook

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more

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  • fiction
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

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21. The Little Match Girl Strikes Back

By: Emma Carroll

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

It only takes one strike! A powerful feminist reworking of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, fro… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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22. Nightjar

By: Katya Balen

3.86

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

When Noah’s dad visits from New York, he and Noah come across an injured nightjar during a walk in … read more

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  • childrens
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23. The Midnight Game

By: Cynthia Murphy

3.86

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A classic horror story for a new generation. Six strangers. One night. But how many survivors? … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Murphy's The Midnight Game book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Welcome to Camp Killer

By: Cynthia Murphy

3.30

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

When an American-style residential camp is set up in the grounds of an English stately home, the te… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

25. Island of Whispers

By: Frances Hardinge

4.35

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Island of Whispers book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • childrens
  • fiction
"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

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26. Jodie

By: Hilary McKay

3.70

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in thiseerily atmos… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Ravencave by Marcus Sedgwick

27. Ravencave

By: Marcus Sedgwick

3.76

Format: None pages, None

A grim discovery brings disturbing revelations in this chilling ghost story from the late Marcus Se… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • ghost stories
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28. Wild Song

By: Candy Gourlay

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

The year is 1904. Luki has lived a tribal life in the mountains of the Philippines. Now she's growi… read more

Similar categories in Candy Gourlay's Wild Song book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • fiction
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29. King of Nothing

By: Nathanael Lessore

4.43

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

ANTON AND HIS FRIENDS ARE THE KINGS OF YEAR 9.They're used to ruling the school and Anton wears the… read more

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Cover of The Big Ask: A life-affirming teen rom-com from award-winning author Simon James Green (Dyslexia-friendly) by Simon James Green

30. The Big Ask: A life-affirming teen rom-com from award-winning author Simon James Green (Dyslexia-friendly)

By: Simon James Green

4.15

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Alfie Parker has bagged the hottest date to prom … hasn’t he? Bestselling LGBTQ+ writer Simon James… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's The Big Ask: A life-affirming teen rom-com from award-winning author Simon James Green (Dyslexia-friendly) book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Digging for Victory

By: Cathy Faulkner

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Set in Devon in 1941, Digging for Victory tells the story of twelve-year-old Bonnie Roberts who is … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Faulkner's Digging for Victory book and Marcus Sedgwick's Ravencave

  • childrens

9 Top contemporary books like Ravencave by Marcus Sedgwick

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The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Crossing the Line

Tia Fisher

4.28

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The Boy Lost in the Maze

Joseph Coelho

3.82

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Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

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17 best-selling fiction books like Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

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City of Stolen Magic

Nazneen Ahmed Pathak

3.78

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Leila and the Blue Fox

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.29

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And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

Jordan Lees

4.32

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