17 Best fantasy books like Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires by Ben Acker

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Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

By: Ben Acker

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This fourth wall–breaking middle grade collection of spooky, scary, and spoopy stories for fans of …

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1. Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"

By: Harold Schechter

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Murder Was the Least of His Crimes... The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films P… read more

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2. Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School, #1)

By: Jen Calonita

3.86

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? An exciting new twisted fairy tale series from award-w… read more

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3. Worm Loves Worm

By: Mike Curato , J.J. Austrian

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Perfect for fans of And Tango Makes Threeand The Sissy Duckling,this irresistible picture book is a… read more

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4. Flamer

By: Mike Curato

4.32

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Ghost Book

By: Remy Lai

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Spirited Away, Coco, and Ghosts comes a contemporary fantasy graphic novel abou… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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7. Too Bright to See

By: Kyle Lukoff

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

A haunting ghost story about navigating grief, growing up, and growing into a new gender identity … read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I've only known what that truth is for a morning, but can't imagine waiting another second to start the rest of my life as myself."

-Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See

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8. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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9. Camp Creepy (Sinister Summer #3)

By: Kiersten White

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Follow the Sinister-Winterbottoms on their most outrageous adventure yet, when they find themselves… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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10. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

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11. Buzzing

By: Samuel Sattin

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself desp… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1) by Daniel Kraus

12. They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Buddy wakes up in the middle of a garbage dump, filled with a certain awareness: he’s a teddy bear… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Protecting others is hard. It can mean putting yourself at risk."

-Daniel Kraus, They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1)

"If you want to survive beyond the Haze, Teddy, you have to go a little bad."

-Daniel Kraus, They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1)

"Sugar struck a pose. "My tiara's gonna look fierce in there, y'all, " she said to no one."

-Daniel Kraus, They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1)

"Don't give up, Buddy, she whispered. Why not? He asked. She adjusted her tinfoil tiara. "Because I made this tiara all by myself with love and care and what's the point of all that love and care if a…"

-Daniel Kraus, They Threw Us Away (The Teddies Saga, #1)

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13. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

By: Matt Kracht

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For those who have a disdain for birds, or for bird lovers with a sense of humor, this snarky illus… read more

Similar categories in Matt Kracht's The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America book and Ben Acker's Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

  • humor
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14. It Found Us

By: Lindsay Currie

3.97

Format: 274 pages, None

From the author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White comes a new spooky mystery about a girl de… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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15. Everybody in the Red Brick Building

By: Anne Wynter

4.04

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, urban take on bedtime stories in the spirit of The House That Jack Built and Chicka Chicka… read more

Similar categories in Anne Wynter's Everybody in the Red Brick Building book and Ben Acker's Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

  • humor
  • childrens
  • fiction
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16. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinist… read more

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  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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18. The Survivalists

By: Kashana Cauley

2.94

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her co… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
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19. Once There Was (Once There Was #1)

By: Kiyash Monsef

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Eerie Tales from the School of Screams

By: Graham Annable

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the director of the Oscar-nominated movie Boxtrolls comes a middle grade horror anthology that… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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22. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

By: Tae Keller

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A story about a girl who is alienated by her friends . . . for believing in aliens. Sometimes m… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"I had to make her understand that this mattered--what people thought had everything to do with who she was. Because how do we know who we are without knowing our place in the world?"

-Tae Keller, Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

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23. American Cult

By: Robyn Chapman

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A graphic history of religious cults in American from the colonial era to today From its earlies… read more

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24. Vampiric Vacation (Sinister Summer #2)

By: Kiersten White

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spooky summer adventures of the Sinister-Winterbottom twins continue in another gothic mystery:… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Vampiric Vacation (Sinister Summer #2) book and Ben Acker's Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel (Bunnicula and Friends) by James Howe

25. Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel (Bunnicula and Friends)

By: James Howe

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Celebrate over forty years of the modern classic Bunnicula with this graphic novelization!Beware th… read more

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  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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26. Hands

By: Torrey Maldonado

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lane? and Tight delivers a fast-paced read that packs a punch about a boy figuri… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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27. No Place for Monsters

By: Kory Merritt

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding, lavishly illustrated story that Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney calls… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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28. Miles Morales Suspended

By: Jason Reynolds

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"ANOTHER THING ABOUT SNOWFLAKES They are not just soft. When they begin to melt, they harden into sleet."

-Jason Reynolds, Miles Morales Suspended

"The moon was a lightbulb dangling from a high ceiling, But in Brooklyn, there were no stars. Not in the sky. Miles, climbed along side his building up to the roof. Once there, he looked out at the Ne…"

-Jason Reynolds, Miles Morales Suspended

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29. Misfit Mansion

By: Kay Davault

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends meets Hilda and the Troll in this spooky and sweet middle grade… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"A home for any horror in need - ghosts, monsters, three-headed dragons, you name it."

-Kay Davault, Misfit Mansion

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30. Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

By: Ben Acker

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This fourth wall–breaking middle grade collection of spooky, scary, and spoopy stories for fans of … read more

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  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López

31. Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

By: Diana López

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

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