7 Best fantasy books like Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru

Cover of Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru

Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

By: Shiko Nguru

4.09

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

12-year-old Mwikali is moving to a new school in Nairobi and just wants her life to be normal. But …

If you liked the fantasy plot in Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Fire, Bed, and Bone by Henrietta Branford

1. Fire, Bed, and Bone

By: Henrietta Branford

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

The narrator of this tale is a hunting dog, living in a peasant household in 1381. Unrest is spread… read more

Similar categories in Henrietta Branford's Fire, Bed, and Bone book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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2. Swim Team

By: Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more

Similar categories in Johnnie Christmas's Swim Team book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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3. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
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4. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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5. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

By: Damilare Kuku

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more

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6. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

Similar categories in Bolu Babalola's Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • fantasy
"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

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7. Big Tree

By: Brian Selznick

4.04

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The fate of all life on Earth may depend on the bravery of two little seeds in this epic adventure … read more

Similar categories in Brian Selznick's Big Tree book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
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8. Tumble

By: Celia C. Pérez

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who co… read more

Similar categories in Celia C. Pérez's Tumble book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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9. Ride On

By: Faith Erin Hicks

4.04

Format: 224 pages, None

In Ride On, this middle grade graphic novel from Faith Erin Hicks, twelve-year-old Victoria is burn… read more

Similar categories in Faith Erin Hicks's Ride On book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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10. The Midnight Children

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.16

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary story about a family of runaways who take up residence in a small town, and the ou… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's The Midnight Children book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
"Stories, after all, are about choices."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"And determined is nearly always a very good thing to be."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"I’ll be your creep, Ravani Foster, if you’ll be my freak."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"But the truth, sometimes, can be the cruelest thing of all."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

Cover of The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1) by Angie Thomas

11. The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1)

By: Angie Thomas

4.19

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the lau… read more

Similar categories in Angie Thomas's The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1) book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
Cover of Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love by Huma Qureshi

12. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

By: Huma Qureshi

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more

Similar categories in Huma Qureshi's Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"

-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love

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13. Omar Rising

By: Aisha Saeed

4.22

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him - the… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Saeed's Omar Rising book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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14. Thirst

By: Varsha Bajaj

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more

Similar categories in Varsha Bajaj's Thirst book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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15. 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 Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

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

-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott

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16. Air

By: Monica Roe

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more

Similar categories in Monica Roe's Air book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
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17. Just Harriet

By: Elana K. Arnold

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of A Boy Called Bat comes a new young middle grade series in the trad… read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's Just Harriet book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
Cover of The List of Unspeakable Fears by J. Kasper Kramer

18. The List of Unspeakable Fears

By: J. Kasper Kramer

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this chilling middle grade historical novel from the a… read more

Similar categories in J. Kasper Kramer's The List of Unspeakable Fears book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
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19. The Summer of June

By: Jamie Sumner

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Sumner's The Summer of June book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
Cover of Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru

20. Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

By: Shiko Nguru

4.09

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

12-year-old Mwikali is moving to a new school in Nairobi and just wants her life to be normal. But … read more

Similar categories in Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
Cover of Moonflight by Gill Lewis

21. Moonflight

By: Gill Lewis

4.14

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Can a timid rat ever become a hero? Tilbury is about to find out on the adventure of a lifetime,… read more

Similar categories in Gill Lewis's Moonflight book and Shiko Nguru's Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

  • middle grade
  • fantasy

18 Top middle grade books like Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru

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Fire, Bed, and Bone

Henrietta Branford

3.81

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Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

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Tyger

S.F. Said

4.17

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A Rover's Story

Jasmine Warga

4.28

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22 Best fiction books like Moonflight by Gill Lewis

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The Demon Headmaster (Demon Headmaster, #1)

Gillian Cross

3.81

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The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)

Jill Murphy

3.96

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Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

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Skandar and the Phantom Rider (Skandar #2)

A.F. Steadman

4.39

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