18 best-selling middle grade books like Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt

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Nothing Ever Happens Here

By: Sarah Hagger-Holt

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"This is Littlehaven. Nothing ever happens here. Until the spotlight hits my family." Izzy's fam…

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Cover of Interlude-Brandon (The Game is Life, #3) by Terry Schott

1. Interlude-Brandon (The Game is Life, #3)

By: Terry Schott

4.31

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Brandon Strayne. Brilliant computer programmer, businessman, and world leader. Where did this m… read more

Similar categories in Terry Schott's Interlude-Brandon (The Game is Life, #3) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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2. Virtual Prophet (The Game is Life, #4)

By: Terry Schott

4.18

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the Game, players struggle to survive in a world where technology no longer functions. On T… read more

Similar categories in Terry Schott's Virtual Prophet (The Game is Life, #4) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Mystery of the Painted Dragon (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #3)

By: Katherine Woodfine

4.28

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

When a priceless painting is stolen, our dauntless heroines Sophie and Lil find themselves faced wi… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Woodfine's The Mystery of the Painted Dragon (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #3) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Game (The Game is Life, #1)

By: Terry Schott

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The Game... A virtual reality simulation played by over a billion children around the world. The be… read more

Similar categories in Terry Schott's The Game (The Game is Life, #1) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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5. Digital Heretic (The Game is Life, #2)

By: Terry Schott

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions on Earth are shaken by the events set in motion by Zack's final play... Billions on Tygon … read more

Similar categories in Terry Schott's Digital Heretic (The Game is Life, #2) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook

6. The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #2)

By: Katherine Woodfine

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

The honour of your company is requested at lord beaucastle's fancy dress ball. Wonder at the puzzli… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Woodfine's The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #2) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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7. Sovereign (Nemesis, #2)

By: April Daniels

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred vet… read more

Similar categories in April Daniels's Sovereign (Nemesis, #2) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • queer
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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8. 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

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Doomsday Date

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.35

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An exclusive new World Book Day story from the bestselling author of ACE OF SPADES, Faridah Àbíké-Í… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's The Doomsday Date book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • contemporary
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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10. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

Similar categories in Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • audiobook
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11. Jemima Small Versus the Universe

By: Tamsin Winter

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jemima Small just wants to be like other girls. She hates being called "Jemima Big", being forced t… read more

Similar categories in Tamsin Winter's Jemima Small Versus the Universe book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The World's Worst Children 3: Fiendishly Funny New Short Stories for Fans of David Walliams Books [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] David Walliams

By: David Walliams

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Please Read Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor se… read more

Similar categories in David Walliams's The World's Worst Children 3: Fiendishly Funny New Short Stories for Fans of David Walliams Books [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2008] David Walliams book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School-Trip (Lottie Brooks, #4) by Katie  Kirby

13. Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School-Trip (Lottie Brooks, #4)

By: Katie Kirby

4.56

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny illus… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kirby's Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School-Trip (Lottie Brooks, #4) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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14. 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

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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15. 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

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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16. You Could Be So Pretty

By: Holly Bourne

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A dystopian YA novel with a shocking twist, You Could Be So Pretty is The Beauty Myth for teenagers… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's You Could Be So Pretty book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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17. Jamie

By: L.D. Lapinski

4.46

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful and uplifting story from L.D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, abou… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Lapinski's Jamie book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Being trans is fine, it's the world that's the problem. And that's what people don't seem to get. There are loads of us as well. Whether you make room for us or not, whether you accept us or not, whe…"

-L.D. Lapinski, Jamie

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18. Like a Charm

By: Elle McNicoll

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them... until Ramya Knox. As … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Like a Charm book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Exactly. These stories about fairies and giants and vampires and trolls... they may have written them completely wrong. But you're still more likely to find a magical monster in a story than someone …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Ramya, your brain...it's why you can see through Glamour. It's why you're immune to Sirens. It's...it's incredible. I wish I were like you. I've never met anyone that can do what you do. I swear. It …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Books are like little pockets of time. Little artifacts from other cultures and other periods of history. You can go to a museum where they put everything behind glass and won't let you touch things.…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Maybe you don't need the whole world. Maybe you don't need a fridge full of gold stars. You don't need to fit the mold. You just need one person who believes you're right, just as you are. That the g…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

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19. Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2)

By: Josh Silver

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed… read more

Similar categories in Josh Silver's Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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20. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

By: Holly Bourne

3.94

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe."

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they're being the way they're being. It takes time …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"You don't have to stop looking after yourself just to help the world. In fact, sometimes it's better for the world if you put yourself first. That's not being selfish, in fact looking after yourself …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

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21. Can You See Me?

By: Libby Scott

4.28

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age story about learning to celebrate yourself -- and teaching the world to recognize y… read more

Similar categories in Libby Scott's Can You See Me? book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Actually, the more I think about it, the more I figure that a lot of the cons of autism are not really caused by autism, but by how other people react to it."

-Libby Scott, Can You See Me?

Cover of Thorn In My Side (Sweetpea, #4) by C.J. Skuse

22. Thorn In My Side (Sweetpea, #4)

By: C.J. Skuse

4.32

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy… Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thank… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Skuse's Thorn In My Side (Sweetpea, #4) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Show Us Who You Are

By: Elle McNicoll

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Show Us Who You Are book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There are no useless facts, Cora."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"Grief is just love asking for more time."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

Cover of Finn Jones Was Here by Simon James Green

24. Finn Jones Was Here

By: Simon James Green

4.62

Format: None pages, None

Eric's best friend, Finn, was the world's most enthusiastic prankster. Was, because Finn died recen… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's Finn Jones Was Here book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • middle grade
  • contemporary
Cover of The Christmas Carrolls (The Christmas Carrolls, #1) by Mel Taylor-Bessent

25. The Christmas Carrolls (The Christmas Carrolls, #1)

By: Mel Taylor-Bessent

4.16

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Funny, festive middle grade about the world's most Christmassy family from the founder of Authorfy,… read more

Similar categories in Mel Taylor-Bessent's The Christmas Carrolls (The Christmas Carrolls, #1) book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

26. Forget This Ever Happened

By: Cassandra Rose Clarke

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes there's a town called Indianola. And sometimes there isn't. Summer, 1993. Claire h… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Rose Clarke's Forget This Ever Happened book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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27. The End Crowns All

By: Bea Fitzgerald

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, g… read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's The End Crowns All book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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28. Glitter Boy

By: Ian Eagleton

4.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old James loves dancing, poetry and Mariah Carey. His teacher, Mr Hamilton, is getting … read more

Similar categories in Ian Eagleton's Glitter Boy book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • contemporary
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • lgbt
Cover of Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt

29. Nothing Ever Happens Here

By: Sarah Hagger-Holt

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"This is Littlehaven. Nothing ever happens here. Until the spotlight hits my family." Izzy's fam… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks

30. One Year at Ellsmere

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

With revamped art and now in full color, One Year at Ellsmere is a middle grade friendship story fr… read more

Similar categories in Faith Erin Hicks's One Year at Ellsmere book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of The Double Life of Ted Amos by Simon James Green

31. The Double Life of Ted Amos

By: Simon James Green

4.52

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

  A heart-warming and hilarious story about one boy who wants to fit in, the friends he meets al… read more

Similar categories in Simon James Green's The Double Life of Ted Amos book and Sarah Hagger-Holt's Nothing Ever Happens Here

  • middle grade

24 must-read fiction books like Nothing Ever Happens Here by Sarah Hagger-Holt

Transform Your Habits

Interlude-Brandon (The Game is Life, #3)

Terry Schott

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Virtual Prophet (The Game is Life, #4)

Terry Schott

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Mystery of the Painted Dragon (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #3)

Katherine Woodfine

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Game (The Game is Life, #1)

Terry Schott

4.03

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8 Best middle grade books like The Double Life of Ted Amos by Simon James Green

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Language of Seabirds

Will Taylor

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Fights That Make Us

Sarah Hagger-Holt

4.51

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