The Magic Hour
By: David Wolstencroft
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Eleven-year-old Ailsa Craig is always late! To everything - her own birth, school, and even her own…
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1. The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow (The Sinclair’s Mysteries #1)
By: Katherine Woodfine
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a wo… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- adventure
2. Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4)
By: Robin Stevens
4.12
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
The fantastic new mystery from the author of Murder Most Unladylike. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong hav… read more
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- middle grade
3. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)
By: Robin Stevens
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more
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- middle grade
4. Mistletoe and Murder (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #5)
By: Robin Stevens
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes… read more
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5. Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)
By: Robin Stevens
3.97
Format: 649 pages, Paperback
Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays… read more
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6. First Class Murder: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery
By: Robin Stevens
3.48
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday through Europe on the world-famous Orient Express. … read more
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7. Cream Buns and Crime
By: Robin Stevens
3.37
Format: 204 pages,
A collection of short stories, tips and tricks on being a detective, from the author of Murder Most… read more
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8. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
By: Beth Lincoln
4.06
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
9. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)
By: Pari Thomson
4.20
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
- magic
10. Skandar and the Phantom Rider (Skandar #2)
By: A.F. Steadman
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The Island shall have its revenge . . . Skandar Smith has achieved his dream to train as a unicorn … read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
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
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- middle grade
- childrens
12. Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)
By: Robin Stevens
4.48
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
'The whole theatre seemed on edge. There was a feverish atmosphere seeping into every corner of the… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"My good sir,' he said, 'do you know to whom you are speaking? I am the Prince of Bengal and these are my friends, the Princess of Kowloon and the Duke of Massachusettes. We are waiting for my father,…"-Robin Stevens, Death in the Spotlight (Murder Most Unladylike, #7)
13. 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
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- middle grade
- childrens
- adventure
14. Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike #9)
By: Robin Stevens
4.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The final novel in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Dais… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
15. A Spoonful of Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #6)
By: Robin Stevens
4.40
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
The sixth mystery from the bestselling, award-winning author of Murder Most Unladylike. When Haz… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
16. Top Marks for Murder (Murder Most Unladylike, #8)
By: Robin Stevens
4.35
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Daisy and Hazel are finally back at Deepdean, and the school is preparing for a most exciting event… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
17. The Snow Girl
By: Sophie Anderson
4.22
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From award-winning and critically acclaimed Sophie Anderson, comes a fairy-tale story of friendship… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
18. 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
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
19. A Kind of Spark
By: Elle McNicoll
4.52
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
20. Arkspire (Arkspire, #1)
By: Jamie Littler
4.38
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Glorious, powerful, magic; a city of twists, turns and tricksters; extraordinary secrets which only… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
21. The Strangeworlds Travel Agency (Strangeworlds Travel Agency, #1)
By: L.D. Lapinski
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
"Flick shrugged. 'It's just hard, having a friend who lives in another world.' 'I'm sure you can work it out. It isn't as though you're married yet.' 'I didn't think the Strangeworlds Society approved…"-L.D. Lapinski, The Strangeworlds Travel Agency (Strangeworlds Travel Agency, #1)
22. In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer, #1)
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
4.07
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the … read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
23. Shadowsea (The Cogheart Adventures, #4)
By: Peter Bunzl
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
Swept into the bright hustle and bustle of New York, Lily, Robert and Malkin discover shadowy secre… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
- adventure
24. Fablehouse (Fablehouse, #1)
By: E.L. Norry
3.83
Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
Unlock the legends. Unleash the magic. Save your home. Fablehouse, a mysterious mansion surround… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
25. 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
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- middle grade
26. The Letter with the Golden Stamp
By: Onjali Q. Raúf
4.52
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
'I can't remember how old I was when I first started collecting stamps. But I've got a whole shoebo… read more
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- childrens
27. 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
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
"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)
28. The Magic Hour
By: David Wolstencroft
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Eleven-year-old Ailsa Craig is always late! To everything - her own birth, school, and even her own… read more
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- childrens
- time travel
- adventure
- middle grade
- magic
- fantasy
29. The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)
By: Beth Lincoln
4.57
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Shenanigan Swift is headed to Paris, where new mysteries and new relatives await. The hilarious, qu… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fantasy
"We built through invasion and war, theft and murder, plague and the sacking of empires, until our cities were graveyards, and our mouths were graveyards, and our speech is the speech of the dead."-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)
30. Skandar and the Skeleton Curse (Skandar, #4)
By: A.F. Steadman
4.70
Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition
As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck b… read more
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- fantasy
