The Lovely Dark
By: Matthew Fox
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Financial Times Best Children's Books 2023A Pandemic Story for ChildrenWhen 12-year-old Eleanor New…
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1. 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
2. Safiyyah's War
By: Hiba Noor Khan
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more
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- middle grade
3. The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)
By: Hannah Gold
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindne… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
4. Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (Pages & Co., #2)
By: Anna James
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. The curl-up-on-the-sofa snuggle of a series from a … read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
"Do not wait too long for something special to present itself. Go out and find it."-Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (Pages & Co., #2)
"Words can mean much more, or less, than they seem, and we can put them to such creative uses."-Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (Pages & Co., #2)
"But not really at your service, you understand, it’s a symbolic thing. I’m a prince – I’m not going to actually help you with anything."-Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (Pages & Co., #2)
"Books aren't interested in who is reading them... A book will welcome any reader; any age, any background, any point of view. Books don't care if you can't understand every word in them, or if you wa…"-Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairytales (Pages & Co., #2)
5. Spellstone
By: Ross Montgomery
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Evie is used to not being noticed. But when she meets the mysterious Wainwright, she discovers that… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
6. 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
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- middle grade
- fantasy
7. The Smugglers' Secret (A Girl Called Justice #2)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.28
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it's not long before murder is back on her … read more
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- middle grade
8. The School for Thieves (Crookhaven, #1)
By: J.J. Arcanjo
4.28
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
"So this is really a school for criminals." It was meant as a question, though it came out more as … read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
9. Stitch
By: Pádraig Kenny
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
A compelling, atmospheric and gothic Frankenstein -inspired adventure by an award-winning Irish aut… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
10. Code Name Kingfisher
By: Liz Kessler
4.58
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother’s childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time… read more
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- middle grade
11. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
By: Jamison Shea
3.72
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more
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- fantasy
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
12. The Worlds We Leave Behind
By: A.F. Harrold
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed author and illustrator pair A.F. Harrold and Levi Pinfold comes another powerful and… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
13. A Girl Called Justice (Justice Jones, #1)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for... For a fearless girl called Justic… read more
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- middle grade
14. Island of Whispers
By: Frances Hardinge
4.35
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
- ghosts
"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers
15. Shadowhall Academy: The Whispering Walls
By: Phil Hickes
4.29
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Shadowhall Academy, where spirits haunt the school halls. A brilliantly spooky new serie… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
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17. 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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- middle grade
- 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)
18. The Lovely Dark
By: Matthew Fox
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Financial Times Best Children's Books 2023A Pandemic Story for ChildrenWhen 12-year-old Eleanor New… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
- ghosts
19. All Four Quarters of the Moon
By: Shirley Marr
4.23
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
For fans of When You Trap a Tiger and A Place to Belong comes a gentle, “touching” (Booklist, starr… read more
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- middle grade
"Ma Ma still said nothing. Peijing said nothing either, but on the inside, felt everything."-Shirley Marr, All Four Quarters of the Moon
"It felt like they were standing on the very edge of the world, where everything in front of them was beyond all that they knew, but full of future adventure and within grasp as everything was part of…"-Shirley Marr, All Four Quarters of the Moon
20. Aliya to the Infinite City: a sparkling new magical adventure for fans of Nura and the Immortal Palace
By: Laila Rifaat
4.33
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
Aliya's grandfather is her only family, but lately he has been acting strangely. He's forgotten her… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
