21 Best middle grade books like D-Day Dog (Conkers) by Tom Palmer

Cover of D-Day Dog (Conkers) by Tom Palmer

D-Day Dog (Conkers)

By: Tom Palmer

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack can't wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It's his chance to learn more abo…

If you liked the middle grade plot in D-Day Dog (Conkers) by Tom Palmer , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Skellig (Skellig, #1) by David Almond

1. 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

Similar categories in David Almond's Skellig (Skellig, #1) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of War Horse (War Horse, #1) by Michael Morpurgo

2. War Horse (War Horse, #1)

By: Michael Morpurgo

4.15

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more

Similar categories in Michael Morpurgo's War Horse (War Horse, #1) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • childrens
  • war
  • animals
  • middle grade
  • fiction
"cause when there's life there's still hope"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."

-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)

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3. The Labrador Pact

By: Matt Haig

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Struggling with the typical throes of human life with the help of their loyal black Labrador, Princ… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Labrador Pact book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • fiction
  • animals
  • dogs
Cover of Then (Once, #2) by Morris Gleitzman

4. Then (Once, #2)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In Then- Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland… read more

Similar categories in Morris Gleitzman's Then (Once, #2) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • war
  • fiction
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5. Now (Once, #3)

By: Morris Gleitzman

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Nowis the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War serie… read more

Similar categories in Morris Gleitzman's Now (Once, #3) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • war
  • fiction
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6. Once (Once, #1)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more

Similar categories in Morris Gleitzman's Once (Once, #1) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • war
  • childrens
  • fiction

7. After (Once, #4)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the fourth part of Felix's story, continuing his adventures in World War Two, he faces perhaps h… read more

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8. Letters from the Lighthouse

By: Emma Carroll

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, no… read more

Similar categories in Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

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9. October, October

By: Katya Balen

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD. October and her dad live in the w… read more

Similar categories in Katya Balen's October, October book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole."

-Katya Balen, October, October

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10. The Boy at the Back of the Class

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.39

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Told with humor and heart, 'THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS' offers a child's perspective on the r… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Boy at the Back of the Class book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • war
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Sometimes all you really need is somewhere to cry without anyone ever knowing."

-Onjali Q. Raúf, The Boy at the Back of the Class

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11. 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 Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Doomsday Date by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

12. 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 Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

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13. 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 Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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15. When the Sky Falls

By: Phil Earle

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story. It's 1940, and Joseph has been packed off to stay with Mrs F, a gruff wom… read more

Similar categories in Phil Earle's When the Sky Falls book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • childrens
  • war
  • animals
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • fiction
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16. The Completely Chaotic Christmas of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #5)

By: Katie Kirby

4.58

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

From hilarious bestselling author, Katie Kirby, comes a brand-new Lottie Brooks story. This time it… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kirby's The Completely Chaotic Christmas of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #5) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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17. The 1,000 Year Old Boy

By: Ross Welford

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-… read more

Similar categories in Ross Welford's The 1,000 Year Old Boy book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Would you like to live forever? I’m afraid I cannot recommend it. I am used to it now, and I do understand how special it is. Only I want to stop now. I want to grow up like you."

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

"I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drench…"

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

"I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drench…"

-Ross Welford, The 1,000 Year Old Boy

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18. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

Similar categories in Lily Allen's My Thoughts Exactly book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

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19. Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2)

By: Hannah Gold

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unmissable follow-up to the award-winning  The Last Bear— perfect for fans of Rosanne Parry and… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gold's Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

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

20. 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 Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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21. 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 Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Bigg School: Best Friends Forever by Lisa Williamson

22. Bigg School: Best Friends Forever

By: Lisa Williamson

4.35

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to BIGG SCHOOL! Lola and Evie have been BFF since they were babies. When Lola discovers … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Williamson's Bigg School: Best Friends Forever book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • childrens
Cover of Jummy at the River School by Sabine Adeyinka

23. Jummy at the River School

By: Sabine Adeyinka

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jummy has won a place at the River School, the finest girls’ boarding school in Nigeria. Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Sabine Adeyinka's Jummy at the River School book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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24. Global

By: Eoin Colfer

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Time is running out for Sami and Yuki. Sami and his grandfather live in a village along the Indian … read more

Similar categories in Eoin Colfer's Global book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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25. The Land of Roar

By: Jenny McLachlan

4.07

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Everyone remembers their secret imaginary world...but what if you discovered that yours was real? … read more

Similar categories in Jenny McLachlan's The Land of Roar book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at the Museum (Montgomery Bonbon #1) by Alasdair Beckett-King

26. Murder at the Museum (Montgomery Bonbon #1)

By: Alasdair Beckett-King

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A brilliantly funny young murder mystery from a rising stand-up comedian, podcaster and filmmaker –… read more

Similar categories in Alasdair Beckett-King's Murder at the Museum (Montgomery Bonbon #1) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"But inspiration can strike in many different ways ... When the philosopher Archimedes stepped into his bath and sloshed water over the sides, the people downstairs were inspired to find a new flat."

-Alasdair Beckett-King, Murder at the Museum (Montgomery Bonbon #1)

Cover of Once Upon a Crime (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5, 8.5) by Robin Stevens

27. Once Upon a Crime (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5, 8.5)

By: Robin Stevens

4.17

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new short story collection in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unl… read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's Once Upon a Crime (Murder Most Unladylike, #6.5, 8.5) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Feather by M.G. Leonard

28. Feather

By: M.G. Leonard

4.61

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

The Twitchers have one last mystery to solve – and this time it's a heist! The final unputdownable … read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's Feather book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

Cover of D-Day Dog (Conkers) by Tom Palmer

29. D-Day Dog (Conkers)

By: Tom Palmer

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jack can't wait for the school trip to the D-Day landing beaches. It's his chance to learn more abo… read more

Similar categories in Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers) book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • childrens
  • war
  • animals
  • middle grade
  • dogs
  • world war ii
  • fiction
Cover of My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed

30. My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan

By: Sufiya Ahmed

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine,… read more

Similar categories in Sufiya Ahmed's My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • middle grade
Cover of The Ice Children by M.G. Leonard

31. The Ice Children

By: M.G. Leonard

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen on a p… read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's The Ice Children book and Tom Palmer's D-Day Dog (Conkers)

  • childrens

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Skellig (Skellig, #1)

David Almond

3.81

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Michael Morpurgo

4.15

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The Labrador Pact

Matt Haig

3.44

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Morris Gleitzman

3.36

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Sophie Anderson

4.22

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Sabine Adeyinka

4.10

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Allow Me to Introduce Myself

Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

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Jacqueline Wilson

4.18

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