7 Top middle grade books like The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century by Neal Bascomb

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The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

By: Neal Bascomb

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At the height of World War I, as Allied and German forces battled in the trenches and in the air, a…

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1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

By: Mary Roach

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Traitor's Game (The Traitor's Game #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

2. The Traitor's Game (The Traitor's Game #1)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.91

Format: 360 pages, ebook

Nothing is as it seems in the kingdom of Antora. Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile in … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adventure
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3. Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, … read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Prisoner B-3087 book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • historical
  • middle grade
Cover of The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose

4. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

By: Phillip Hoose

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nati… read more

Similar categories in Phillip Hoose's The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy, #2) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

5. The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy, #2)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling sequel to Jennifer A. Nielsen's blockbuster NEW YORK TIMES bestseller THE FALSE PRINC… read more

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  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • adventure
Cover of Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) by Dorothy L. Sayers

6. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable Lond… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10) book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • historical
"How do you do?"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"Bredon shuddered. “I think this is an awfully immoral job of ours. I do, really. Think how we spoil the digestions of the public."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

"The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal. The animal was, it seemed, an illustrious rat-catcher, with many famous deeds to her credit. Not only that, but she had been the first…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

7. The Shadow Throne (The Ascendance Trilogy, #3)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.66

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One war. Too many deadly battles. Can a king save his kingdom when his own survival seems unlikely?… read more

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8. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By: Alan Gratz

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Irela… read more

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9. East

By: Edith Pattou

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rose has always been different.Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her… read more

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10. The Few: The American ""Knights of the Air"" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain

By: Alex Kershaw

3.37

Format: None pages,

By the summer of 1940 World War II had been under way for nearly a year. Hitler was triumphant and … read more

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11. Posted

By: John David Anderson

4.08

Format: 432 pages, ebook

In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words … read more

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12. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • history
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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13. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1

By: Celina Frenn

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series is … read more

Similar categories in Celina Frenn's Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1 book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • middle grade
  • adventure
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14. The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

By: Larry Loftis

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Florida Book Awards Gold Medalist New York Times bestselling author and … read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Remember Love (Ravenswood, #1) by Mary Balogh

15. Remember Love (Ravenswood, #1)

By: Mary Balogh

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clan… read more

Similar categories in Mary Balogh's Remember Love (Ravenswood, #1) book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • historical
  • audiobook
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16. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Heywood's Wavewalker: Breaking Free book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Cover of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) by Rachel Hartman

17. Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.91

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Meet Tess, a brave new heroine from beloved epic fantasy author Rachel Hartman. In the medieval … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adventure
"I am the prayer ."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"Belief was uniquely human."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"You’re making assumptions."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"What’s done cannot be undone."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

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18. When Twilight Breaks

By: Sarah Sundin

4.31

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's When Twilight Breaks book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • historical
  • audiobook
"when storms come, the reed bends but the stick breaks"

-Sarah Sundin, When Twilight Breaks

"Leaning did not maker her weaker. It made her stronger."

-Sarah Sundin, When Twilight Breaks

"When the storm comes, the reed bends but the stick breaks."

-Sarah Sundin, When Twilight Breaks

"But you, Peter Lang - your influence might be narrow, but it'll be deep."

-Sarah Sundin, When Twilight Breaks

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19. The Patron Thief of Bread

By: Lindsay Eagar

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully crafted middle-grade novel spiced with magic—and gargoyles!—from the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Eagar's The Patron Thief of Bread book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • adventure
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20. All Out War (Eric Steele #2)

By: Sean Parnell

4.17

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

“Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal.”— Lee Child Special operative Eric Steel… read more

Similar categories in Sean Parnell's All Out War (Eric Steele #2) book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • military fiction
  • war
  • audiobook
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21. The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

By: Neal Bascomb

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At the height of World War I, as Allied and German forces battled in the trenches and in the air, a… read more

Similar categories in Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century book and Neal Bascomb's The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

  • world war i
  • history
  • adventure
  • historical
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • middle grade
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.28

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3.91

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4.40

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Nicholas Day

4.15

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4.20

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