10 best-selling juvenile books like Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness

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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

By: Patrick Ness

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes ever…

If you liked the juvenile plot in Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Ferris by Kate DiCamillo

1. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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2. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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3. Deep Water

By: Jamie Sumner

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An impactful, gripping middle grade novel in verse from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner that spans on… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Sumner's Deep Water book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Island of Whispers book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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

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5. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Readers will be rooting for a happy ending for Hank in Newbery-Honor-winner Gennifer Choldenko’s gr… read more

Similar categories in Gennifer Choldenko's The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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6. The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel

By: Christopher Lincoln

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel adventure in which two siblings, a mysterious Night Librarian, and a motley cast of… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Lincoln's The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
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7. The Bletchley Riddle

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more

Similar categories in Ruta Sepetys's The Bletchley Riddle book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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8. They Call Me No Sam!

By: Drew Daywalt

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Drew Daywalt, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit , and illus… read more

Similar categories in Drew Daywalt's They Call Me No Sam! book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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9. Kareem Between

By: Shifa Saltagi Safadi

4.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh grade Syrian-Amer… read more

Similar categories in Shifa Saltagi Safadi's Kareem Between book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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10. Read at Your Own Risk

By: Remy Lai

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Read at Your Own Risk is the illustrated sketch diary of a girl who is being haunted after a game g… read more

Similar categories in Remy Lai's Read at Your Own Risk book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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11. We Are Big Time

By: Hena Khan

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

SWISH! Cheer courtside for a Muslim teen as she joins an all-girls, hijab-wearing basketball team a… read more

Similar categories in Hena Khan's We Are Big Time book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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12. The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)

By: Beth Lincoln

4.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Shenanigan Swift is headed to Paris, where new mysteries and new relatives await. The hilarious, qu… read more

Similar categories in Beth Lincoln's The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2) book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"We built through invasion and war, theft and murder, plague and the sacking of empires, until our cities were graveyards, and our mouths were graveyards, and our speech is the speech of the dead."

-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues (Swifts, #2)

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13. The Dictionary Story

By: Sam Winston

4.35

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

The much-anticipated new picture book from the best-selling, award-winning creators of A Child of B… read more

Similar categories in Sam Winston's The Dictionary Story book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • humor
  • childrens
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14. The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1)

By: James Ponti

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1) book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • school
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fiction
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15. A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

By: Jasmine Warga

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Rover's Story and Other Words for Ho… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
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16. How It All Ends

By: Emma Hunsinger

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Tara lives inside the nonstop adventure of her imagination. It’s far more enterta… read more

Similar categories in Emma Hunsinger's How It All Ends book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • school
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17. Not Nothing

By: Gayle Forman

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning auth… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's Not Nothing book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness

18. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

By: Patrick Ness

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of A Monster Calls, this funny, wise middle-grade series explodes ever… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • school
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • juvenile
Cover of The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily by Richard Ayoade

19. The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily

By: Richard Ayoade

4.17

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

What if you could send fan mail to your fairy tale idols? And what if they wrote back? “Happily eve… read more

Similar categories in Richard Ayoade's The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C.C. Cecily book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
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20. 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 Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • juvenile
Cover of Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries) by Jarrett Lerner

21. Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries)

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A young ghost tries his best to fit in with the rest of the ghouls in this sweet and spooky chapter… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett Lerner's Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries) book and Patrick Ness's Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • school

17 best-selling fiction books like Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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The Mystery of Locked Rooms

Lindsay Currie

4.03

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Deep Water

Jamie Sumner

4.21

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Island of Whispers

Frances Hardinge

4.35

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17 best-selling fiction books like Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

Transform Your Habits

City of Stolen Magic

Nazneen Ahmed Pathak

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Leila and the Blue Fox

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.29

Transform Your Habits

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

4.69

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

Jordan Lees

4.32

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