7 Top middle grade books like The Grimmelings by Rachael King

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The Grimmelings

By: Rachael King

4.38

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Spellbinding middle-grade fantasy adventure of loyalty, courage, and being careful what you wish fo…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Grimmelings by Rachael King , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Lightfall: The Dark Times (Lightfall, #3)

By: Tim Probert

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Lights have gone dark in Irpa. Danger lurks as the air grows colder and threats lie in the s… read more

Similar categories in Tim Probert's Lightfall: The Dark Times (Lightfall, #3) book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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2. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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3. 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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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
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4. The Revelry

By: Katherine Webber

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Laini Taylor, E. Lockhart, and Holly Black, the chilling story of a girl who goes to a … read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2) by Michael  Bennett

5. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

By: Michael Bennett

3.94

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more

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  • family
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6. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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7. The Girl Who Speaks Bear

By: Sophie Anderson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, 12-year-old Yanka has always felt out of place in her sma… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Girl Who Speaks Bear book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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8. 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

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
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9. Tonight, I Burn (The Witches of Halstett, #1)

By: Katharine J. Adams

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A thorn witch with the power to walk between the realms of Life and Death finds herself at the cent… read more

Similar categories in Katharine J. Adams's Tonight, I Burn (The Witches of Halstett, #1) book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • fantasy
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10. The Night She Fell

By: Eileen Merriman

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more

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11. Hine Toa

By: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku

4.45

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The immersive, inspiring and long-awaited memoir by legendary activist and scholar Ngahuia Te Aweko… read more

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12. The Grimmelings

By: Rachael King

4.38

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Spellbinding middle-grade fantasy adventure of loyalty, courage, and being careful what you wish fo… read more

Similar categories in Rachael King's The Grimmelings book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • horses
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
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13. Little Bang

By: Kelly McCaughrain

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet Northern Irish romance that takes a new look at teen pregnancy, the magic and mess of… read more

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14. The Wrong Shoes: The vital new novel from the bestselling creator of Big Bright Feelings

By: Tom Percival

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty from leading author/illust… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Nine Girls: A brand new mystery for 9-12 year olds by Stacy Gregg

15. Nine Girls: A brand new mystery for 9-12 year olds

By: Stacy Gregg

4.41

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

They dug a hole right there on our farm on the bank of the Mangawara and they put the box filled wi… read more

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16. Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea

By: T.K. Roxborogh

4.27

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

On a beach clean-up, thirteen-year-old one-legged Charlie and his half-brother, Robbie, find a pona… read more

Similar categories in T.K. Roxborogh's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • fantasy
  • childrens
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17. I Am Rebel

By: Montgomery Ross

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • childrens
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18. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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19. Brown Bird

By: Jane Arthur

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Eleven-year-old Rebecca tries to make herself invisible so people won’t call her weird. Resigned to… read more

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  • family
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20. At The Grand Glacier Hotel

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.53

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a If they ever visit the West Coast o… read more

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Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

21. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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22. Fallout

By: Lesley Parr

4.59

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Can Marcus escape the future his parents expect him to have? Or is his fate decided by his family? … read more

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23. Take Me to Your Leader

By: Leonie Agnew

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eleven-year-old Lucas has now got a new worry to add to his long, long list – his rural school is o… read more

Similar categories in Leonie Agnew's Take Me to Your Leader book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • childrens
Cover of The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth Ward

24. The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone

By: Gareth Ward

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

“When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. People warned us… read more

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25. Catch a Falling Star

By: Eileen Merriman

4.09

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A fifteen-year-old reaches for stardom as he slides into psychosis. Francesca – known to every… read more

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26. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

By: Patrick Ness

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes ever… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody book and Rachael King's The Grimmelings

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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27. Koro's Star

By: Claire Aramakutu

4.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Set in the 1960s, Koro's Star is a heart-warming, exciting, adventure story. It's the beginning of … read more

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28. The Raven's Eye Runaways

By: Claire Mabey

4.40

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, beautifully-told fantasy quest set in a parallel medieval world.Three young people and … read more

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29. Lopini the Legend

By: Feana Tu'akoi

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Lopini is replaced as kapa haka leader at school, he starts to spiral. It doesn't matter that … read more

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30. Migration

By: Steph Matuku

4.83

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Farah of Untwa joins a school for training fighters, strategic thinkers and military personnel. It … read more

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31. New Dawning (The Edge of Light, #1)

By: A.M. Dixon

4.19

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Merel lives in a world ruled by traditions and shadowed from the fierce sunlight. This small commun… read more

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4.20

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Tristan Bancks

4.04

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4.71

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Tia Fisher

4.28

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Josh Silver

4.04

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Elle McNicoll

4.69

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