13 Top young adult books like The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Cover of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.12

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in th…

"Sorrow is dangerous."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Magic and madness are link after all."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Death is always sudden, even when it isn't"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Some of us...choose love over power. Indeed, most of us do."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

If you liked the young adult plot in The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

1. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By: Grace Lin

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the f… read more

Similar categories in Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1) by Peter Lerangis, Mike Reagan

2. The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1)

By: Peter Lerangis , Mike Reagan

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One Boy Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. In a few months, he’s go… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lerangis's The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, #1) book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac Legacy, #1) by Stan Lee, Andie Tong, Stuart Moore

3. The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac Legacy, #1)

By: Stan Lee , Andie Tong , Stuart Moore

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven… read more

Similar categories in Stan Lee's The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence (Zodiac Legacy, #1) book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • adventure
Cover of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

4. The Girl Who Drank the Moon

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.12

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in th… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • witches
  • juvenile
"Sorrow is dangerous."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Magic and madness are link after all."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Death is always sudden, even when it isn't"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

"Some of us...choose love over power. Indeed, most of us do."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Cover of The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

5. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't want to just survive"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"This book made me love reading."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

Cover of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

6. The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Cover of Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate

7. Crenshaw

By: Katherine Applegate

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable a… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe

8. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • adventure
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

9. The One and Only Ivan

By: Katherine Applegate , Patricia Castelao

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accu… read more

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10. Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)

By: Brandon Mull

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fable… read more

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11. Hello, Universe

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and… read more

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Cover of Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell

12. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

By: Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell

3.88

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequence… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"So many miracles have not yet happened."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble"

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

13. A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire, #1)

By: Jessica Cluess

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Library Binding

I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can b… read more

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14. The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)

By: None

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who esc… read more

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15. One Good Dragon Deserves Another (Heartstrikers, #2)

By: Rachel Aaron

4.65

Format: None pages,

After barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all knowing seers, and countle… read more

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16. The Magic Misfits (Magic Misfits #1)

By: Neil Patrick Harris

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

From beloved award-winning actor, Neil Patrick Harris, comes the magical first book in a new series… read more

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Cover of A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

17. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

By: T. Kingfisher

4.09

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards char… read more

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  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"After a minute, I said, “I never wanted to be a hero."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"She shouldn't have had to be a hero.' 'No,' said the Duchess, 'no, no one should."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"I expect this won’t be your last set of medals, my dear. Heroism is an unfortunate habit."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

"...but hey, once a baker, always a baker. If I was going to get thrown in the dungeon, at least I was going to leave a trail of quality pastries behind me."

-T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

Cover of The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1) by Soman Chainani

18. The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

By: Soman Chainani

3.99

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some yea… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Hold on to me!"

-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

"Beauty is a full-time job."

-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

"I've been beautiful all along."

-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

"A slave to his hearts mistakes."

-Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)

Cover of Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1) by B.B. Alston

19. Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1)

By: B.B. Alston

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full schol… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

20. When You Trap a Tiger

By: Tae Keller

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medal Winner (2021) Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her famil… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am a girl who sees invisible things, but I am not invisible."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"Does it get easier? Does the sadness go away? The sadness fades, yeah. Eventually. But the missing ... I don't know if that ever does."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"If you put things off for later, you'll never do them. They'll become harder and scarier, and one day you'll realize you've run out of time."

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

"It's hard to breathe. I know now: The moment when everything really falls apart--it's not during the big explosion. It's in the quiet after. And the feeling is not a shattering. Not quite"

-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger

Cover of Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1) by Roshani Chokshi

21. Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

By: Roshani Chokshi

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While he… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It is not failure to fail."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"Words had their own power."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"Love looked different to everyone."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

"The world had a tendency to trick people."

-Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava, #1)

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Kelly Barnhill

4.12

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