12 Best fantasy books like The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

Cover of The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

The House in Poplar Wood

By: K.E. Ormsbee

4.01

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For as long as the Vickery twins can remember, they’ve only ever been able to leave the house toget…

"But how can you miss Felix when you don't know him?" "I carried you both inside me, him just as much as you. And do not tell me you don't miss your father because you've never known him." Lee grew quiet at the thought. Of course his mother was right: He missed his father with an inextinguishable love, even though he'd never seen his face."

-K.E. Ormsbee, The House in Poplar Wood

"But how can you miss Felix when you don't know him?" "I carried you both inside me, him just as much as you. And do not tell me you don't miss your father because you've never known him." Lee grew quiet at the thought. Of course his mother was right: He missed his father with an inextinguishable love, even though he'd never seen his face."

-K.E. Ormsbee, The House in Poplar Wood

If you liked the fantasy plot in The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Robert Lawson, Elizabeth Janet Gray

1. Adam of the Road

By: Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

"A road's a kind of holy thing," said Roger the Minstrel to his son, Adam. "That's why it's a good… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gray Vining's Adam of the Road book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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2. Call It Courage

By: Armstrong Sperry

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Med… read more

Similar categories in Armstrong Sperry's Call It Courage book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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3. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
Cover of The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5) by Jonathan Stroud

4. The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)

By: Jonathan Stroud

3.84

Format: 135 pages, ebook

After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Stroud's The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5) book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal

5. Dreadnought (Nemesis, #1)

By: April Daniels

4.23

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest super… read more

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6. Tales of the Peculiar (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #0.5)

By: Ransom Riggs , Andrew Davidson

3.97

Format: 179 pages,

Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy c… read more

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7. Alamut

By: Vladimir Bartol , Michael Biggins

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Alamuttakes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet … read more

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8. Tears of a Tiger (Hazelwood High, #1)

By: Sharon M. Draper

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

After a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, An… read more

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9. The Secret of Zoom

By: Lynne Jonell

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Christina lives in an old stone mansion on the edge of a forest surrounded by barbed wire and signs… read more

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10. The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

By: Colin Meloy , Carson Ellis

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the creators of the New York Timesbestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous,… read more

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11. The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co., #4)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.07

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy,Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring her… read more

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12. The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co. #3)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout… read more

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13. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

Cover of The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1) by Trenton Lee Stewart

14. The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

By: Trenton Lee Stewart

4.20

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the new… read more

Similar categories in Trenton Lee Stewart's The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1) book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
"Poor Kate,"

-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

"Remember the White Knight."

-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

"Children are capable of such open rudeness."

-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

"Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know."

-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)

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15. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

Similar categories in Thien Pham's Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • middle grade
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16. The Four Loves

By: C.S. Lewis

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human lov… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Lewis's The Four Loves book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"To know that one is dreaming is to be no longer perfectly asleep."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"El amor empieza a ser un demonio desde el momento en que comienza a ser un dios."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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17. Over My Dead Body: A Witchy Graphic Novel

By: Sweeney Boo

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will love diving into the mysterious and witchy world of awa… read more

Similar categories in Sweeney Boo's Over My Dead Body: A Witchy Graphic Novel book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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18. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Invisible

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more

Similar categories in Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Invisible book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2) by Katherine Arden

20. Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)

By: Katherine Arden

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this fo… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2) book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"It will be dark in a few hours. Ghosts are stronger in the dark."

-Katherine Arden, Dead Voices (Small Spaces, #2)

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21. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Tree. Table. Book. book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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22. What Lives in the Woods

By: Lindsay Currie

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the decrepit Woodmoor Manor…where something in the woods is always watching. From the au… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's What Lives in the Woods book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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23. The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story

By: Mary Downing Hahn

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn unrolls the suspenseful, spine-chilling yarn of a girl impriso… read more

Similar categories in Mary Downing Hahn's The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1) by J.A. White

24. Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1)

By: J.A. White

4.00

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This t… read more

Similar categories in J.A. White's Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1) book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"And now I realize---so what if I write scary stories? I might hurt someone with nouns and adjectives, but I would never hurt someone for real."

-J.A. White, Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1)

Cover of Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu

25. Not Quite a Ghost

By: Anne Ursu

4.08

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and … read more

Similar categories in Anne Ursu's Not Quite a Ghost book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • juvenile
Cover of Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

26. 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

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • mystery
  • 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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27. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

28. The Heartbreak Bakery

By: A.R. Capetta

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post… read more

Similar categories in A.R. Capetta's The Heartbreak Bakery book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as sol…"

-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

"But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. H…"

-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

Cover of The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

29. The House in Poplar Wood

By: K.E. Ormsbee

4.01

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

For as long as the Vickery twins can remember, they’ve only ever been able to leave the house toget… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • juvenile
"But how can you miss Felix when you don't know him?" "I carried you both inside me, him just as much as you. And do not tell me you don't miss your father because you've never known him." Lee grew qu…"

-K.E. Ormsbee, The House in Poplar Wood

Cover of Library Girl by Polly Horvath

30. Library Girl

By: Polly Horvath

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

After secretly living in the public library for the last eleven years, Essie must learn to adapt to… read more

Similar categories in Polly Horvath's Library Girl book and K.E. Ormsbee's The House in Poplar Wood

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile

19 Top fiction books like The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

Transform Your Habits

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Call It Courage

Armstrong Sperry

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

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The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co. #5)

Jonathan Stroud

3.84

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22 Top fiction books like Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining, Robert Lawson, Elizabeth Janet Gray

Transform Your Habits

Secret of the Andes (Puffin Newberry Library)

Ann Nolan Clark

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics)

Roger Lancelyn Green , Arthur Hall

4.07

Transform Your Habits

I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

3.76

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Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Gray Vining , Robert Lawson , Elizabeth Janet Gray

3.77

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