14 Top fiction books like The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson

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The Dragonfly Pool

By: Eva Ibbotson

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school…

"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

If you liked the fiction plot in The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Kingdoms & Empires, #1) by Jaclyn Moriarty

1. The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Kingdoms & Empires, #1)

By: Jaclyn Moriarty

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates.This does not bother her… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"All books have magical properties."

-Jaclyn Moriarty, The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Kingdoms & Empires, #1)

"I was still seeing pirates in my old way, as almost-imaginary, adventure-story people with parrots on their shoulders, rather than the kind who shoot cannons at parents."

-Jaclyn Moriarty, The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Kingdoms & Empires, #1)

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2. Skellig (Skellig, #1)

By: David Almond

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Micha… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"There's no end to evolution."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53"

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

"Can love help a person to get better?’ I asked."

-David Almond, Skellig (Skellig, #1)

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3. Voices in Summer

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

4.29

Format: 288 pages,

First published by Sphere 1989, transferred to Warner 1992. read more

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  • fiction
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4. The Explorer

By: Katherine Rundell

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Parents' Choice Recommended From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exc… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Dragonfly Pool

By: Eva Ibbotson

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school… read more

Similar categories in Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool book and Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool

  • boarding school
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."

-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool

Cover of Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

6. Vicky Angel

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every time a new Jacqueline Wilson book arrives, there is always a small part of every reviewer tha… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Vicky Angel book and Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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7. Orangeboy

By: Patrice Lawrence

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Marlon has promised his widowed mum that he'll be good, and nothing like his gang-… read more

Similar categories in Patrice Lawrence's Orangeboy book and Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool

  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. What We Wish We'd Known When We Were Newlyweds

By: John Bytheway , Kimberly Bytheway

3.88

Format: None pages,

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9. Firesong (Wind On Fire, #3)

By: William Nicholson

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

'Firesong' is what publishers like to call an "event" book. Launched with huge razzmatazz, this wei… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult

10. The Wind Singer (Wind on Fire, #1)

By: Peter Sís , William Nicholson

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

The first in a trilogy, The Wind Singer is a mesmerizing and remarkably realized fantasy novel full… read more

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11. The Perilous Gard

By: Richard Cuffari , Elizabeth Marie Pope

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sut… read more

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12. The Spice Merchant's Wife

By: Charlotte Betts

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stunning third novel from award-winning historical fiction author, Charlotte Betts, opening in … read more

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13. Model Misfit (Geek Girl, #2)

By: Holly Smale

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek." Harriet knows that modelling won't transform y… read more

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14. Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. . . . Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is m… read more

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15. Slaves of the Mastery (Wind on Fire, #2)

By: William Nicholson

3.95

Format: None pages,

'Slaves of the Mastery' is the fantastically vivid, breathtaking sequel to 'The Wind Singer' by Wil… read more

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16. The Secret Beach

By: Veronica Henry

4.26

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY!'I adored e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens

17. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Britain is at war and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Acti… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Ministry of Unladylike Activity book and Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Escape to the River Sea

By: Emma Carroll

4.14

Format: None pages, None

Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspire… read more

Similar categories in Emma Carroll's Escape to the River Sea book and Eva Ibbotson's The Dragonfly Pool

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz by Robin Stevens

19. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

By: Robin Stevens

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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21. Eagle Drums

By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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