10 must-read fantasy books like The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark

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The Lock-Eater

By: Zack Loran Clark

3.97

Format: None pages, None

For fans of Nevermoor and Howl's Moving Castle comes an epic middle grade fantasy about a girl with…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. Furthermore

By: Tahereh Mafi

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Alice Alexis Queensmeadow 12 rates three things most important: Mother, who wouldn't miss her; magi… read more

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2. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Last Mapmaker book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

Cover of A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) by Lisa Yee

3. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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4. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from t… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Answers in the Pages book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us."

-David Levithan, Answers in the Pages

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6. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria

By: Muhammad Najem

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more

Similar categories in Muhammad Najem's Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • middle grade
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7. Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer

By: Leslie Gentile

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It’s the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But not eleve… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Gentile's Elvis, Me, and the Lemonade Stand Summer book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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8. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Elf Dog and Owl Head book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

9. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Ogress and the Orphans book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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10. 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 Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Different Kinds of Fruit

By: Kyle Lukoff

4.08

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from a Stonewall Award winner, a sixth-grader’s life is tu… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Lukoff's Different Kinds of Fruit book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Honestly Elliott

By: Gillian McDunn

4.33

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McDunn's Honestly Elliott book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"

-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott

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13. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Shine On, Luz Véliz!

By: Rebecca Balcárcel

4.28

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful coming-of-age story for fans of Front Desk and Merci Suárez Changes Gears , this book c… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Balcárcel's Shine On, Luz Véliz! book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The self is not discovered, but created."

-Rebecca Balcárcel, Shine On, Luz Véliz!

Cover of Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer by Donna Sandstrom

15. Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer

By: Donna Sandstrom

4.54

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A captivating account of the only successful orca rescue and reunion in history told in first perso… read more

Similar categories in Donna Sandstrom's Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah  Johnson

16. Ellie Engle Saves Herself

By: Leah Johnson

4.13

Format: 288 pages, None

Ellie Engle doesn’t stand out. Not at home, where she’s alone with her pet fish since her dad moved… read more

Similar categories in Leah Johnson's Ellie Engle Saves Herself book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One by Adam Rex

17. The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One

By: Adam Rex

4.10

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Meet Gumluck the Wizard, the star of a new chapter book series by the inimitable Adam Rex! This is… read more

Similar categories in Adam Rex's The Story of Gumluck the Wizard: Book One book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark

18. The Lock-Eater

By: Zack Loran Clark

3.97

Format: None pages, None

For fans of Nevermoor and Howl's Moving Castle comes an epic middle grade fantasy about a girl with… read more

Similar categories in Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • action
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu #1) by Julie C. Dao

19. Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu #1)

By: Julie C. Dao

3.96

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the B… read more

Similar categories in Julie C. Dao's Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu #1) book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion by K. Tempest Bradford

20. Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion

By: K. Tempest Bradford

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A backyard adventure-mystery. Eleven-year-old Ruby is a Black girl who loves studying insects an… read more

Similar categories in K. Tempest Bradford's Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Hope in Hopetown by Maria Tureaud

21. The Last Hope in Hopetown

By: Maria Tureaud

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about one girl’s dilemma over the decision to save her vampire parents or do what’s r… read more

Similar categories in Maria Tureaud's The Last Hope in Hopetown book and Zack Loran Clark's The Lock-Eater

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • lgbt

17 must-read fiction books like The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark

Transform Your Habits

The Last Mapmaker

Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Answers in the Pages

David Levithan

4.32

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20 Top fiction books like The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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