5 Best middle grade books like Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers by Jenny Nimmo

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Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers

By: Jenny Nimmo

3.77

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Gabriel Silk’s family are the keepers of a magical cloak, handed down the generations. When Gabriel…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers by Jenny Nimmo , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Merlin Conspiracy (Magids, #2)

By: Diana Wynne Jones

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two chil… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
"...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language."

-Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy (Magids, #2)

"I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only th…"

-Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy (Magids, #2)

Cover of Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2) by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Marie Lu

2. Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

By: Amie Kaufman , Jay Kristoff , Marie Lu

4.44

Format: 659 pages, Library Binding

Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s soc… read more

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  • fantasy
"I am often told I defy expectations."

-Amie Kaufman, Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

"She looked at the stars He looked at her"

-Amie Kaufman, Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

"It's great to be good, it's better to be lucky."

-Amie Kaufman, Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

"The boy who promised her a whole sky of different stars"

-Amie Kaufman, Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)

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3. The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

By: Nancy Springer

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has d… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Springer's The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1) book and Jenny Nimmo's Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers

  • middle grade
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4. Finding Audrey

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.75

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Audrey can't leave the house. she can't even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then he… read more

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"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"You can't even communicate in English. Real life is not a series of levels."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

"She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late."

-Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

5. King of Shadows

By: Susan Cooper

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

WHAT'S NAT DOING IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME?Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escap… read more

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6. Ark Angel (Alex Rider, #6)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for mor… read more

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7. The Hound of Rowan (The Tapestry, #1)

By: Henry H. Neff

4.07

Format: 71 pages,

Max McDaniels lives a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a myster… read more

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8. Scorpia

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Alex Rider, teen spy, has always been told he is the spitting image of the father he never knew. Bu… read more

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9. Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

By: Amie Kaufman , Jay Kristoff

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she'd have to do. This after… read more

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10. The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

By: Rick Riordan

4.24

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus to rescue an old friend… read more

Similar categories in Rick Riordan's The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17) book and Jenny Nimmo's Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
"You’re cute when you’re nervous."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"And no light was brighter than Noco di Angelo."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"All things can change, if given the opportunity."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

"I got you,’ he breathed into Will’s ear. ‘I got you."

-Rick Riordan, The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, #17)

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11. The House with Chicken Legs

By: Sophie Anderson

4.10

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sur… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy
"But it’s our duty as Yaga, living in this Yaga house, to talk to them and give them one last wonderful evening reliving their memories and celebrating their lives, before they pass through The Gate a…"

-Sophie Anderson, The House with Chicken Legs

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12. Vespertine

By: Margaret Rogerson

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The dead of Loraille do not rest. Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses … read more

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  • fantasy
"They would martyr me themselves to satisfy their hunger for a saint."

-Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

"Is it true that spirits can’t remember anything about their human lives?"

-Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

"Sometimes, if you want to save other people, you need to remember to save yourself first."

-Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

"And so the silent bell wakens to herald the Dead; and the last candle is lit against the coming night..."

-Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

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13. Velvet Was the Night

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.51

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking… read more

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"He walked and let the rain kiss him."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"In the end, you either fight or lie down to be trampled."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"Cinderellas, dreaming. Maite dreamed too, but nothing came of it."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

"He didn't know what the words meant, but he knew what they sounded like: it was the sound of sadness."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Velvet Was the Night

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14. Gabriel and the Phantom Sleepers

By: Jenny Nimmo

3.77

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Gabriel Silk’s family are the keepers of a magical cloak, handed down the generations. When Gabriel… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fantasy

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4.44

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