9 must-read childrens books like Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) by Joan Aiken, Edward Gorey

Cover of Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) by Joan Aiken, Edward Gorey

Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2)

By: Joan Aiken , Edward Gorey

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend a…

If you liked the childrens plot in Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) by Joan Aiken, Edward Gorey , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Crow Road

By: Iain Banks

4.08

Format: 501 pages, Paperback

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780349103235 'It was the day my grandmother explo… read more

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  • fiction
"I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ..."

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but …"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark surv…"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

"People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for…"

-Iain Banks, The Crow Road

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2. The Ogre Downstairs

By: Diana Wynne Jones

3.89

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Diana Wynne Jones at her finest – family feuds and chaos, magic with hilarious results and some of … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Blythes Are Quoted (Anne of Green Gables, #9) by L.M. Montgomery, Benjamin Lefebvre, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

3. The Blythes Are Quoted (Anne of Green Gables, #9)

By: L.M. Montgomery , Benjamin Lefebvre , Elizabeth Rollins Epperly

3.79

Format: 527 pages, Hardcover

The Blythes Are Quoted is the last work of fiction by the internationally celebrated author of Anne… read more

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  • fiction
  • childrens
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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4. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • adventure

6. Katie John

By: Paul Frame , Mary Calhoun

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Ten-year-old Katie John Tucker did not look forward to the summer she and her parents were to spend… read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) by Joan Aiken, Edward Gorey

7. Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2)

By: Joan Aiken , Edward Gorey

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend a… read more

Similar categories in Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) book and Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1) by Edward Eager, N.M. Bodecker

8. Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1)

By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Four children wish on a Half Magiccoin that gets their mother Alison half-way home, rescued by Mr S… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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9. Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona, #5)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you a… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

10. Frost in May

By: Antonia White

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wou… read more

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11. Black Maria

By: Diana Wynne Jones

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

On the surface, Aunt Maria seems like a cuddly old lady, all chit-chat and lace doilies and unadult… read more

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12. The Moon of Gomrath (Tales of Alderley, #2)

By: Alan Garner

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

The Moon of Gomrath is the name of the one night of the year when the Old Magic is at its most powe… read more

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13. Dogsbody

By: Diana Wynne Jones

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried for murder by his heavenly peers and found guilty. His sentence: to … read more

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14. Brother in the Land

By: Robert Swindells

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Denny, a teenager, is one of the unlucky ones, a survivor, one of those who have come through a nuc… read more

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15. The Owl Service

By: Alan Garner

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a s… read more

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16. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)

By: Alan Garner

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wiz… read more

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17. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more

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18. Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

By: James Sturm

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of ra… read more

Similar categories in James Sturm's Watership Down: The Graphic Novel book and Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2)

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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19. The Star That Always Stays

By: Anna Rose Johnson

4.08

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

When bright and spirited Norvia moves from the country to the city, she has to live by one new rule… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1) by John Shen Yen Nee

20. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

By: John Shen Yen Nee

3.62

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."

-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

Cover of Forever Twelve (The Evers) by Stacy McAnulty

21. Forever Twelve (The Evers)

By: Stacy McAnulty

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What if you were twelve for all of eternity? From the award-winning author of The Miscalculations o… read more

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  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

13 best-selling fiction books like Black Hearts in Battersea (The Wolves Chronicles, #2) by Joan Aiken, Edward Gorey

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3.79

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Against Nature

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3.83

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Shawnelle Gibbs

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