21 Top middle grade books like The Flight of Swans by Sarah McGuire

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The Flight of Swans

By: Sarah McGuire

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Six Swans, The Flight of Swans follows Ryn's journey to sa…

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Cover of The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co., #1.5) by Jonathan Stroud

1. The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co., #1.5)

By: Jonathan Stroud

3.96

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling new case for London’s most talented psychic detection agency—from the global bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Stroud's The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co., #1.5) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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2. Scorpion Mountain (Brotherband Chronicles, #5)

By: John Flanagan

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice -- an all-new adventure… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fantasy
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3. Kenny & the Dragon

By: Tony DiTerlizzi

3.96

Format: 151 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when your new best buddy has been designated a scourge by the community and marked f… read more

Similar categories in Tony DiTerlizzi's Kenny & the Dragon book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"Who else is going to create the next great stories for kids to read?"

-Tony DiTerlizzi, Kenny & the Dragon

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4. Mara, Daughter of the Nile

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds her… read more

Similar categories in Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Mara, Daughter of the Nile book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • young adult
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5. The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

By: Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard

4.69

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Book Three of The Wingfeather Saga Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera. But h… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way."

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and …"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

"I'll put her in charge of the puppies. I've twelve this week that need tending. How does that suit you?" Leeli's mouth hung open. She tried to say something but instead crumpled to the floor. She had…"

-Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

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6. 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 Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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7. The Secrets of Solace

By: Jaleigh Johnson

4.00

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From Jaleigh Johnson, the acclaimed author of The Mark of the Dragonfly,comes another thrilling adv… read more

Similar categories in Jaleigh Johnson's The Secrets of Solace book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • adventure
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8. 11 Birthdays (Willow Falls, #1)

By: Wendy Mass

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

GROUNDHOG DAY meets FLIPPED in this tale of a girl stuck in her birthday.It's Amanda's 11th birthda… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Mass's 11 Birthdays (Willow Falls, #1) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Mom said it’s too violent for me. I would argue, but after being terrified by a SpongeBob balloon, I’m pretty sure she’s right."

-Wendy Mass, 11 Birthdays (Willow Falls, #1)

"Is that what we're doing?" I whisper as he slides in next to me. "Saving the world or saving ourselves?" "Maybe it's the same thing," he whispers back"

-Wendy Mass, 11 Birthdays (Willow Falls, #1)

Cover of Mother-Daughter Book Camp (The Mother-Daughter Book Club, #7) by Heather Vogel Frederick

9. Mother-Daughter Book Camp (The Mother-Daughter Book Club, #7)

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The Mother-Daughter Book Club goes to summer camp in this seventh and final installment of the Moth… read more

Similar categories in Heather Vogel Frederick's Mother-Daughter Book Camp (The Mother-Daughter Book Club, #7) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

10. A Tail of Camelot

By: Julie Leung

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

Young mouse Calib Christopher dreams of the day when he will become a Knight of Camelot like his fa… read more

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11. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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12. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

Similar categories in E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

13. The Ghostfaces (Brotherband Chronicles, #6)

By: John Flanagan

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they're blown far off course - so f… read more

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14. The Quest to the Uncharted Lands

By: Jaleigh Johnson

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller The Mark of the Dragonfly comes another … read more

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15. The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co., #2)

By: Jonathan Stroud

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in Eng… read more

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16. The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

By: Melanie Dickerson

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Two Hearts. One Hope. Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a ra… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Dickerson's The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Feel Better? No. Get up so I can hit you again."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"Music was food for the spirit, and she closed her eyes to better feed upon it."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"I vow to you, Rose, that I will love you so tenderly, you will never feel unloved again."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

"It doesn't matter who your parents are. That doesn't determine your worth, Rose. According to the wisdom of the world, it does. But not according to God's wisdom."

-Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)

17. 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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18. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)

By: E. Nesbit

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more

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19. 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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20. A Place to Hang the Moon

By: Kate Albus

4.57

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more

Similar categories in Kate Albus's A Place to Hang the Moon book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."

-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

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21. Nothing Else But Miracles

By: Kate Albus

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more

Similar categories in Kate Albus's Nothing Else But Miracles book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5) by Shannon Messenger

22. Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

By: Shannon Messenger

4.25

Format: 764 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 8.5 in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series delivers … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Messenger's Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"Love, Keefe"

-Shannon Messenger, Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #8.5)

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23. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Ogress and the Orphans book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fairy tales
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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24. Once Upon a Camel

By: Kathi Appelt

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An old camel is out to save two baby kestrel chicks during a massive storm in the Texas desert.Zada… read more

Similar categories in Kathi Appelt's Once Upon a Camel book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • adventure
"...the worst thing you can do to a cat is embarrass it."

-Kathi Appelt, Once Upon a Camel

"By the time we grow very old, all our wishes have either been granted, or they haven't. Some stay with us so long that they simply become part of who we are; they grow old with us, and might even tur…"

-Kathi Appelt, Once Upon a Camel

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25. Mulan: Before the Sword

By: Grace Lin

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author, Grace Lin, comes a novel filled with adventure and wonder … read more

Similar categories in Grace Lin's Mulan: Before the Sword book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • retellings
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Velvet Fox (The Clockwork Crow, #2) by Catherine Fisher

26. The Velvet Fox (The Clockwork Crow, #2)

By: Catherine Fisher

4.11

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

After rescuing Tomos from faery enchantment, orphan Seren Rhys wants nothing more than to enjoy her… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Fisher's The Velvet Fox (The Clockwork Crow, #2) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fantasy
Cover of The Midnight Swan (The Clockwork Crow, #3) by Catherine Fisher

27. The Midnight Swan (The Clockwork Crow, #3)

By: Catherine Fisher

4.28

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

With an invisible girl, a parliament of owls and a pen that writes by itself, the journey to the Ga… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Fisher's The Midnight Swan (The Clockwork Crow, #3) book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • adventure
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28. A Season Most Unfair

By: J. Anderson Coats

4.05

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

This historical middle grade coming-of-age story set in medieval times follows a strong-minded girl… read more

Similar categories in J. Anderson Coats's A Season Most Unfair book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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29. The Flight of Swans

By: Sarah McGuire

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Six Swans, The Flight of Swans follows Ryn's journey to sa… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fairy tale retellings
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • folk tales
  • fantasy
Cover of Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1) by Gail Carson Levine

30. Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)

By: Gail Carson Levine

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fantasy
"Love shouldn't be dictated"

-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)

"If I couldn't sleep, I could read."

-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)

"I want to be with you forever and beyond..."

-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)

"Amor (qué placer escribir esta palabra), amor, amor..."

-Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)

Cover of Glass: A Cinderella Tale by Kathryn Lasky

31. Glass: A Cinderella Tale

By: Kathryn Lasky

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A prequel to the Cinderella story from the perspective of a young fairy godmother. In a grand g… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Lasky's Glass: A Cinderella Tale book and Sarah McGuire's The Flight of Swans

  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fantasy

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The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co., #1.5)

Jonathan Stroud

3.96

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John Flanagan

4.41

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Kenny & the Dragon

Tony DiTerlizzi

3.96

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The Monster in the Hollows (The Wingfeather Saga, #3)

Andrew Peterson , Justin Gerard

4.69

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Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates (Dear Canada)

Jean Little

3.95

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13 Gifts (Willow Falls, #3)

Wendy Mass

4.23

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My Life in Pink & Green (Pink & Green, #1)

Lisa Greenwald

3.94

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Heaven to Betsy (Betsy-Tacy, #5)

Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville

3.82

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