13 best-selling middle grade books like Strays by Remy Wilkins

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Strays

By: Remy Wilkins

4.15

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

What if you were attacked by something you didn't believe in? Rodney, abandoned by his mother a…

"The reason an egg-laying bunny is the symbol for easter is because rabbits are like bloodhounds for demons, and eggs are, essentially, demon bombs."

-Remy Wilkins, Strays

"The reason an egg-laying bunny is the symbol for easter is because rabbits are like bloodhounds for demons, and eggs are, essentially, demon bombs."

-Remy Wilkins, Strays

If you liked the middle grade plot in Strays by Remy Wilkins , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl

By: Cheston Hervey , Darren Doane

4.30

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Lacy is the sole survivor of a freak accident that took eleven of her friends and the use of her le… read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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3. North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

By: Andrew Peterson

4.55

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

First they found themselves  On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness.  Now they must make their way… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"You call that poetry?"

-Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

"She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt"

-Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

"Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn't see stare into nothi…"

-Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

"He was only twelve, but he knew enough to realize that the way before him would be hard. Is it worth it? he asked himself. Was it worth losing his old life in order to learn the truth of who he was a…"

-Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

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4. Joy at the End of The Tether: The Inscrutable Wisdom of Ecclesiastes

By: Douglas Wilson

4.28

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few… read more

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5. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great

By: Benjamin R. Merkle

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the En… read more

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6. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

By: Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard

4.69

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Book Three of The Wingfeather Saga Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera. But h… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and …"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?" Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had…"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

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8. Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity

By: Rebekah Merkle

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much … read more

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9. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. The Chestnut King (100 Cupboards, #3)

By: N.D. Wilson

4.17

Format: 482 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Henry's final battle has arrived in the third book of the bestselling 100 Cupboard series, about 10… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"There was a new strength inside him, and he was wealthy with a love for the world, for the smell of the breeze and the texture of stone, for the height of the hill and the deep moss green of the fiel…"

-N.D. Wilson, The Chestnut King (100 Cupboards, #3)

11. The Warden and the Wolf King (The Wingfeather Saga #4)

By: None , Andrew Peterson

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

All winter long, people in the Green Hollows have prepared for a final battle with Gnag the Nameles… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction

12. A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape sce… read more

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13. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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14. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

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  • fiction

15. Classical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not Thine Education

By: Rebekah Merkle

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Grades aren't the point, so drill to win. Rebekah Merkle knows which high school classes you like a… read more

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16. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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17. The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Perfect Paperback

Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake t… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?"

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

"You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true."

-S.D. Smith, The Green Ember (The Green Ember, #1)

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18. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

Cover of The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family by C.R.  Wiley

19. The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family

By: C.R. Wiley

4.27

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The household is not just a shelter from a war zone, it is the command center from which we launch … read more

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20. Andrew and the Firedrake

By: Douglas Wilson

4.07

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

The boy in the garden remembers three things: his name, his age, and a command. His name is Andrew.… read more

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  • fantasy
  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • fiction
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21. The Last Archer (Green Ember Archer, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.45

Format: 160 pages, None

A Green Ember story set during Heather and Picket’s arrival at Cloud Mountain, The Last Archer foll… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"I'm fine," Jo said, "according to this fine doctor, Emma, who has a reputation for honesty and smelling good."

-S.D. Smith, The Last Archer (Green Ember Archer, #1)

"No disapproving voices haunted his vision, nor were any angry faces shaking their heads at his shame. Jo believed he was dying, but a weary smile played across his face."

-S.D. Smith, The Last Archer (Green Ember Archer, #1)

"Jo's heart sank. Five fresh wolves against one doe, who was unaware of their presence, and two half-dead bucks on the other side of the clearing. Jo glanced at the Cloud Mountain archer. He wasn't mo…"

-S.D. Smith, The Last Archer (Green Ember Archer, #1)

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22. The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 192 pages, Perfect Paperback

Over a century before Heather and Picket's adventures in The Green Ember, a displaced community fig… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave."

-S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

"Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler."

-S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1)

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23. Forbidden Child

By: Gwen Newell

4.51

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

"I belong to the Godmother." Piper Pascal has spent her life on the Escape , a city-sized cruis… read more

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  • fantasy
  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • fiction
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24. The Winter King

By: Christine Cohen

4.38

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A village trapped in winter, a tyrannical god, and a girl who will do anything to keep her family a… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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25. The Sinking City

By: Christine Cohen

4.38

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Venice is a carnival of opposites, and Liona Carvatti thinks she understands it all: canal and pala… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"He doesn’t deserve it, my heart protests. All the better, Aloysius whispers back."

-Christine Cohen, The Sinking City

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26. Jack Zulu and the Waylander's Key (Jack Zulu, #1)

By: S.D. Smith

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the creator of the million-plus selling Green Ember series comes a brand new story with an old… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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27. Strays

By: Remy Wilkins

4.15

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

What if you were attacked by something you didn't believe in? Rodney, abandoned by his mother a… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"The reason an egg-laying bunny is the symbol for easter is because rabbits are like bloodhounds for demons, and eggs are, essentially, demon bombs."

-Remy Wilkins, Strays

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28. Jack Zulu and the Girl with Golden Wings (Jack Zulu, #2)

By: S.D. Smith

4.41

Format: 272 pages, None

A world in the balance.A boy with a fateful choice.A girl with golden wings.Jack Zulu explores a ne… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fantasy
  • childrens
Cover of Psalms for Trials: Meditations on Praying the Psalms by Lindsey Tollefson

29. Psalms for Trials: Meditations on Praying the Psalms

By: Lindsey Tollefson

4.68

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

"I hope that as you start praying the Psalms, you will feel His presence in all the things that you… read more

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30. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

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31. Brave Ollie Possum

By: Ethan Nicolle

4.47

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Ollie Mackerelli is determined to face his fear of the dark once and for all, but he gets more than… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

21 Best fiction books like Strays by Remy Wilkins

Transform Your Habits

Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl

Cheston Hervey , Darren Doane

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

4.02

Transform Your Habits

North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

Andrew Peterson

4.55

Transform Your Habits

That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

C.S. Lewis

3.81

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14 must-read fiction books like The Black Star of Kingston (Green Ember Old Natalia, #1) by S.D. Smith

Transform Your Habits

Code: Veronica (Resident Evil, #6)

S.D. Perry

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Tuesdays at the Castle (Castle Glower, #1)

Jessica Day George

4.11

Transform Your Habits

North! or Be Eaten (The Wingfeather Saga, #2)

Andrew Peterson

4.55

Transform Your Habits

The Secret of the Swamp King (The Wilderking Trilogy, #2)

Jonathan Rogers

4.40

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