13 must-read middle grade books like A Stitch in Time by Daphne Kalmar

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A Stitch in Time

By: Daphne Kalmar

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with her unpleasant aunt and the even more unpleasant idea of moving to Boston i…

If you liked the middle grade plot in A Stitch in Time by Daphne Kalmar , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King and a Pickpocket Squirrel by Susan Hill Long

1. The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King and a Pickpocket Squirrel

By: Susan Hill Long

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The twisty-turny journey of a girl searching for her heart’s desire—glimpsed in a magic mirror. Per… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hill Long's The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King and a Pickpocket Squirrel book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy, #1) by S.E. Grove

2. The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy, #1)

By: S.E. Grove

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sop… read more

Similar categories in S.E. Grove's The Glass Sentence (The Mapmakers Trilogy, #1) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2) by Deanna Raybourn

3. A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Vic… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Gentlemen are champion sulkers so long as one doesn’t call the behavior by that name."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2)

"You do not yet know what it means to love someone more than yourself. I have no pride left, no delicacy. I cannot afford it. So I will tell you the truth: I wanted his happiness above all things."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell, #2)

Cover of The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2) by Nancy Springer, Peter Ferguson

4. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2)

By: Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Springer's The Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes, #2) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes, #3) by Nancy Springer, Peter Ferguson

5. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes, #3)

By: Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it's a shoc… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Springer's The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets (Enola Holmes, #3) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1) by Jennifer Bell, Karl James Mountford

6. The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1)

By: Jennifer Bell , Karl James Mountford

3.50

Format: 218 pages, ebook

Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems... When their grandmother Sylvie is rushed to… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Bell's The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

7. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

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8. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

9. Some Kind of Happiness

By: Claire Legrand

3.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

THINGS FINLEY HART DOESN'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT * Her parents, who are having problems. (But they pre… read more

Similar categories in Claire Legrand's Some Kind of Happiness book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

10. Nory Ryan's Song (Nory Ryan, #1)

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a … read more

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11. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

By: Peter Brown

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more

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12. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13)

By: Agatha Christie

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts t… read more

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13. 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 Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

14. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

Cover of The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3) by Peter  Brown

15. The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3)

By: Peter Brown

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The action-packed third installment in Peter Brown's internationally bestselling The Wild Robot ser… read more

Similar categories in Peter Brown's The Wild Robot Protects (The Wild Robot #3) book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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16. 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 Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Lotería by Karla Arenas Valenti

17. Lotería

By: Karla Arenas Valenti

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the hottest hour of the hottest day in Oaxaca City when Life and Death walk into town, ready … read more

Similar categories in Karla Arenas Valenti's Lotería book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • death
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"To believe, despite everything, to have hope- that was a choice."

-Karla Arenas Valenti, Lotería

Cover of Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

18. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

Similar categories in Angeline Boulley's Warrior Girl Unearthed book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

Cover of The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett

19. The Grace of Wild Things

By: Heather Fawcett

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's The Grace of Wild Things book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"And though she'd always liked reading about faraway places, wasn't it also nice, she asked, to have somebody make you see all the beautiful things right under your nose?"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"Eavesdropping is not a virtue in a young lady," Mrs Crumley said. "Is it a virtue in an old lady?" Grace demanded, her temper flaring. "You seem to learn half your gossip that way."

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

"The world was a different place once. People didn’t own forests when I was a girl. Forests simply were. We witches could drift from place to place, from wood to wood, weaving cottages from magic and …"

-Heather Fawcett, The Grace of Wild Things

Cover of No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy

20. No One Leaves the Castle

By: Christopher Healy

4.02

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The Lilac. The bard songs say that she’s the world’s most fearsome bounty hunter. That there’s no c… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Healy's No One Leaves the Castle book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of A Stitch in Time by Daphne Kalmar

21. A Stitch in Time

By: Daphne Kalmar

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with her unpleasant aunt and the even more unpleasant idea of moving to Boston i… read more

Similar categories in Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time book and Daphne Kalmar's A Stitch in Time

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • kids
  • juvenile

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