10 Best fantasy books like Outside In by Jennifer Bradbury

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Outside In

By: Jennifer Bradbury

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A twelve-year-old boy living on the streets of Chandigarh, India, stumbles across a secret garden f…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Outside In by Jennifer Bradbury , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Wishtree

By: Katherine Applegate , Charles Santoso

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . . Red is an oak tree who is man… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Wishtree book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"Here's an idea for you: ideas are a bad idea"

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"I'm not just a tree. I'm a home. A community. - Red"

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope."

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

"My point," Bongo continued, "is that the world's a tough place. Doesn't matter if you're a bunny or a lizard or a kid."

-Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

2. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (Molly Moon, #1)

By: Georgia Byng

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Hypnotism Molly Moon is no ordinary orphan. When she finds a myst… read more

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3. Go Set a Watchman

By: Harper Lee

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning… read more

Similar categories in Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

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4. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

Similar categories in Jon Klassen's The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Gilded (Gilded, #1)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.89

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning st… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Gilded (Gilded, #1) book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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6. The Winemaker's Wife

By: Kristin Harmel

4.22

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the engrossing international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Winemaker's Wife book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: Amy Sarig King

4.21

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sarig King's Attack of the Black Rectangles book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • family
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

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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

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • family
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"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

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9. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

Similar categories in Beth Moore's All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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10. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • fiction
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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11. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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12. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • family
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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13. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

Similar categories in George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren’t Blue book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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14. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

Similar categories in Allie Millington's Olivetti book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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15. Big Tree

By: Brian Selznick

4.04

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The fate of all life on Earth may depend on the bravery of two little seeds in this epic adventure … read more

Similar categories in Brian Selznick's Big Tree book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun (Onyeka, #1) by Tọlá Okogwu

16. Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun (Onyeka, #1)

By: Tọlá Okogwu

4.11

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New … read more

Similar categories in Tọlá Okogwu's Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun (Onyeka, #1) book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) by Katherine Applegate

17. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller

18. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

By: Tae Keller

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A story about a girl who is alienated by her friends . . . for believing in aliens. Sometimes m… read more

Similar categories in Tae Keller's Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"I had to make her understand that this mattered--what people thought had everything to do with who she was. Because how do we know who we are without knowing our place in the world?"

-Tae Keller, Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

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19. Cress Watercress

By: Gregory Maguire

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile i… read more

Similar categories in Gregory Maguire's Cress Watercress book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Control Freaks

By: J.E. Thomas

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One week. One prize. Seven really weird challenges. The kids at Benjamin Banneker College Prep are… read more

Similar categories in J.E. Thomas's Control Freaks book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Outside In by Jennifer Bradbury

21. Outside In

By: Jennifer Bradbury

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A twelve-year-old boy living on the streets of Chandigarh, India, stumbles across a secret garden f… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • cultural
  • art
  • chapter books
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • india
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
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22. The Hotel Balzaar

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of No… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Hotel Balzaar book and Jennifer Bradbury's Outside In

  • chapter books
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • fantasy

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Katherine Applegate , Charles Santoso

4.29

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4.26

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Marissa Meyer

3.89

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4.22

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Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Kelly Rimmer

4.13

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Amanda Peters

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