13 best-selling middle grade books like The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner

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The Bone Garden

By: Heather Kassner

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Remember, my dear, you do not really and truly exist.” Made of dust and bone and imagination, I…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (Tales of Terror, #1) by David   Roberts, Chris Priestley

1. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (Tales of Terror, #1)

By: David Roberts , Chris Priestley

3.26

Format: 212 pages,

Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the oppor… read more

Similar categories in David Roberts's Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror (Tales of Terror, #1) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. Garlic and the Vampire

By: Bree Paulsen

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Vampire book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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4. Disney Twisted-Wonderland, Vol. 1: The Manga: Book of Heartslabyul

By: Yana Toboso

3.89

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Manga based on the hit mobile video game from Disney, Twisted Wonderland ! Stranded in the world o… read more

Similar categories in Yana Toboso's Disney Twisted-Wonderland, Vol. 1: The Manga: Book of Heartslabyul book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • magic
  • young adult
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5. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 8 (The Girl from the Other Side, #8)

By: Nagabe

4.39

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST For Shiva’s sake, another life must be sacrificed. Teacher thought he had … read more

Similar categories in Nagabe's The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 8 (The Girl from the Other Side, #8) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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6. Bob

By: Wendy Mass

4.06

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A classic middle-grade tale of magic and friendship, about a girl who helps an old friend find home… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Mass's Bob book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. “Well? Can you see me?"

-Wendy Mass, Bob

Cover of All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

7. All the Dead Lie Down

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s … read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's All the Dead Lie Down book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • gothic
  • young adult
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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8. The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Lora Senf's The Clackity (Blight Harbor) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Time made the missing different, but it didn't make it go away."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

"I'd gotten so close, so close to being the hero of my own story..."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

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9. The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1)

By: Julia Nobel

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Emmy's dad disappeared years ago, and with her mother too busy to parent, she's shipped off to Well… read more

Similar categories in Julia Nobel's The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. What Lives in the Woods

By: Lindsay Currie

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the decrepit Woodmoor Manor…where something in the woods is always watching. From the au… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's What Lives in the Woods book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko

11. This Appearing House

By: Ally Malinenko

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks a… read more

Similar categories in Ally Malinenko's This Appearing House book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Ghost of Gosswater

By: Lucy Strange

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A thrilling Gothic tale from the author of Our Castle by the Sea, shortlisted for the Waterstones C… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Strange's The Ghost of Gosswater book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • gothic
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
Cover of The House (Mason Falls Mysteries) by Raelyn Drake

13. The House (Mason Falls Mysteries)

By: Raelyn Drake

2.78

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's… read more

Similar categories in Raelyn Drake's The House (Mason Falls Mysteries) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada

14. The Bookshop Woman

By: Nanako Hanada

3.60

Format: 204 pages, ebook

A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more

Similar categories in Nanako Hanada's The Bookshop Woman book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Luck (The Cursed Manuscripts, #4) by Iain Rob Wright

15. Bad Luck (The Cursed Manuscripts, #4)

By: Iain Rob Wright

4.07

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

NEVER TEMPT FATE...Emily Carlton's life is a relentless cycle of boredom. Single, broke, and trappe… read more

Similar categories in Iain Rob Wright's Bad Luck (The Cursed Manuscripts, #4) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • horror
Cover of Cinders & Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann

16. Cinders & Sparrows

By: Stefan Bachmann

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When a scarecrow climbs over the garden wall, delivering twelve-year-old orphan Zita Brydgeborn a l… read more

Similar categories in Stefan Bachmann's Cinders & Sparrows book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"It was easy to begin things, easy to end them too, but to make everything in between make sense . . . that was the challenge."

-Stefan Bachmann, Cinders & Sparrows

"Daughter, even if you cannot see the truth of things, even if you are frightened and discouraged, know this: some things just are. You don't have to be sure of them. They don't ask your opinion."

-Stefan Bachmann, Cinders & Sparrows

"I don't think spirits tell time," Bram said, stomping across the moss and into the cool air beneath the trees. "It's all a hoax, what they say about midnight and the witching hour. Ghosts are either …"

-Stefan Bachmann, Cinders & Sparrows

"A philosopher,' said Mrs. Cantanker, stalking across the study, black heels clicking, ruby silks whispering around her ankles, 'is one who attempts to capture the truths of the universe so precisely …"

-Stefan Bachmann, Cinders & Sparrows

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17. The Upstairs House

By: Julia Fine

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative meditation on new motherhood—Shirley Jackson meets The Awakening—in which a postpartu… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fine's The Upstairs House book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song."

-Julia Fine, The Upstairs House

Cover of What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine

18. What Should Be Wild

By: Julia Fine

3.22

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at t… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fine's What Should Be Wild book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • magic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Nothing promises revival like a fairy tale."

-Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

"Who knew what spirits could be watching, what ancient impulse lay in wait?"

-Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

"You think because you name it and tell it, it becomes? A story is a present, tied with a ribbon and a wish. Real things aren't so easy."

-Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

"Above him, around him, the elder dreams of soil. Dreams of glassy, glinting snow. Dreams of its own greatness - taller, wider, more light. It knows nothing of self-sabotage, regret, or restitution."

-Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

Cover of The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2) by Julia Nobel

19. The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2)

By: Julia Nobel

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exciting sequel to The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane, Emmy's adventures continue as she deal… read more

Similar categories in Julia Nobel's The Secret of White Stone Gate (Black Hollow Lane, #2) book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner

20. The Bone Garden

By: Heather Kassner

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Remember, my dear, you do not really and truly exist.” Made of dust and bone and imagination, I… read more

Similar categories in Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • gothic
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas

21. The Thief on the Winged Horse

By: Kate Mascarenhas

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The Kendrick family have been making world-famous dolls since the early 1800s. But their dolls aren… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mascarenhas's The Thief on the Winged Horse book and Heather Kassner's The Bone Garden

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction

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3.26

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Bree Paulsen

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Rebecca Stead

4.14

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Yana Toboso

3.89

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Lindsay Currie

4.03

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Lora Senf

4.04

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Leslie Gentile

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