22 Top middle grade books like Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Philip Reeve

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Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

By: Philip Reeve

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Utterly Dark has a special connection to the sea. But it is tested more than ever before, this autu…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Philip Reeve , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Summer Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #8)

By: Enid Blyton , Pamela Cox , Enid Blyton

4.24

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Enid Blyton's Summer Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #8) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20) by R.L. Stine

2. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20)

By: R.L. Stine

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Jodie adora visitar os avós na fazenda. Tudo bem, não é o lugar mais animado do mundo, mas as histó… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Darrell Rivers begins her happy life at Malory Towers two terms later than the other girls, but she… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens

4. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio

"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more

Similar categories in Philip Pullman's The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) by Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

5. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

Similar categories in Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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6. Winter Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #9)

By: Enid Blyton , Pamela Cox

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Susan is excited to be in charge of the winter concert, but Miss Tallant, a new teacher, has very s… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's Winter Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #9) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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7. New Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #7)

By: Enid Blyton , Pamela Cox

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Darrell has left, and Felicity is head of the third form. What a lot she has had to deal with - Jun… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's New Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #7) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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8. Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from the First Term at Malory Towers a… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens

9. Third Year at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #3)

By: Enid Blyton

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The girls return for another term to find several new faces in their form. There is Zerelda, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's Third Year at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #3) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

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10. 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 Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"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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11. Aleksandra

By: Lisa Weeda

3.55

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Met verbluffend vertelplezier en met alle literaire stijlmiddelen die tot haar beschikking staan ve… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Weeda's Aleksandra book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • audiobook
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12. 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 Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures

By: Jason Pamment

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From Treasure in the Lake ’s Jason Pamment comes a story of friendship and self-discovery, in a gor… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pamment's Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
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14. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. The Monsters of Rookhaven (The Monsters of Rookhaven, #1)

By: Pádraig Kenny

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Mirabelle is part of a very unusual family. Between Uncle Bertram transforming into a ferocious gri… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Kenny's The Monsters of Rookhaven (The Monsters of Rookhaven, #1) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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16. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates)

By: Sam Sedgman

4.30

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockw… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sedgman's The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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18. Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5)

By: Thomas Taylor

4.47

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Herbie and Violet's fifth gripping adventure brings the internationally bestselling Eerie-on-Sea se… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Taylor's Mermedusa (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #5) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2)

By: Pari Thomson

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Daisy Thistledown's epic adventure continues in the spellbinding sequel to New York Times bestselle… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Festergrimm (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #4)

By: Thomas Taylor

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Herbie and Violet's arch-enemy Sebastian Eels turns up in Eerie-on-Sea, seemingly back from th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Taylor's Festergrimm (The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea, #4) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. New Class at Malory Towers

By: Enid Blyton

4.22

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

It's time to welcome new girls to Malory Towers, the famous boarding school by the sea, in four bra… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's New Class at Malory Towers book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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22. The Castle of Tangled Magic

By: Sophie Anderson

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Magic and whimsy meet in this Howl's Moving Castle for a new generation from the critically adored … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Castle of Tangled Magic book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
"To live is to make mistakes. I didn't understand her then, but I do now. Making mistakes means we're trying and doing and adventuring and learning. They mean we're living."

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

"It's hard for humans to keep their belief in magic as they grow older. You want to understand things, so you build ideas of what the world is in your minds, then reject anything that doesn't fit into…"

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

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23. Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3)

By: A.F. Steadman

4.55

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The Island always wins… Skandar and his sister Kenna are finally both at the Eyrie, but tensions… read more

Similar categories in A.F. Steadman's Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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24. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Half Life of Valery K book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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25. The House at the Edge of Magic

By: Amy Sparkes

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. Whe… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sparkes's The House at the Edge of Magic book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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26. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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27. The High House

By: Jessie Greengrass

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to mak… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Greengrass's The High House book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet."

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"—What they don’t seem to understand, she said, —is that anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to what we are living through."

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had led her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future. A kind of pact with the world, that, ha…"

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present—and despite the fact that we had known that it would c…"

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

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28. Clutch (The Twitchers, #3)

By: M.G. Leonard

4.46

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Can The Twitchers catch a thief? There's a thief in Aves Wood! M.G. Leonard, internationally bes… read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's Clutch (The Twitchers, #3) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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29. Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

By: Philip Reeve

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Utterly Dark has a special connection to the sea. But it is tested more than ever before, this autu… read more

Similar categories in Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

30. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

Cover of The Curse of the Smugglers' Treasure (Eddie Albert and the Amazing Animal Gang #2) by Paul O’Grady

31. The Curse of the Smugglers' Treasure (Eddie Albert and the Amazing Animal Gang #2)

By: Paul O’Grady

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The second hilarious and action-packed middle grade EDDIE ALBERT adventure from beloved comedian an… read more

Similar categories in Paul O’Grady's The Curse of the Smugglers' Treasure (Eddie Albert and the Amazing Animal Gang #2) book and Philip Reeve's Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild

19 Top fantasy books like Utterly Dark and the Heart of the Wild by Philip Reeve

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The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps, #20)

R.L. Stine

3.70

The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Transform Your Habits

Tyger

S.F. Said

4.17

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Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

Pari Thomson

4.20

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The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1)

Siobhan McDermott

3.91

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The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2)

Pari Thomson

4.38

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The Ever Storms (Wilderlore, #3)

Amanda Foody

4.44

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