16 Top middle grade books like The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Sarah Watts, Claire Legrand

Cover of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Sarah Watts, Claire Legrand

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

By: Sarah Watts , Claire Legrand

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

At the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, you will definitely learn your lesson. An atmospheric, he…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Sarah Watts, Claire Legrand , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The League of Beastly Dreadfuls (The League of Beastly Dreadfuls, #1) by Holly Grant

1. The League of Beastly Dreadfuls (The League of Beastly Dreadfuls, #1)

By: Holly Grant

3.71

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part … read more

Similar categories in Holly Grant's The League of Beastly Dreadfuls (The League of Beastly Dreadfuls, #1) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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2. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

By: Julie Berry

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting… read more

Similar categories in Julie Berry's The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
"Each of us could be under a cloud of suspicion for the rest of our lives." "A black spot," Dour Elinor intoned. "A blemish upon our maiden purity." "Oh, no, surely not," disgraceful Mary Jane replied…"

-Julie Berry, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

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3. The Swallow: A Ghost Story

By: Charis Cotter

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their… read more

Similar categories in Charis Cotter's The Swallow: A Ghost Story book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • horror
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4. Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott

By: Carol Matas

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Isobel thinks that she and her family will find their fortune in Canada. But Isobel's mother dies b… read more

Similar categories in Carol Matas's Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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5. Snow & Rose

By: Emily Winfield Martin

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more

Similar categories in Emily Winfield Martin's Snow & Rose book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

Cover of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Sarah Watts, Claire Legrand

6. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

By: Sarah Watts , Claire Legrand

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

At the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, you will definitely learn your lesson. An atmospheric, he… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1) by Tony DiTerlizzi

7. The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1)

By: Tony DiTerlizzi

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Eva Nine is a curious and sensitive twelve-year-old who has existed only in a subterranean home cal… read more

Similar categories in Tony DiTerlizzi's The Search for WondLa (The Search for WondLa, #1) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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8. The Whispering Trees (The Thickety #2)

By: Andrea Offermann , J.A. White

3.97

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

The second book in J. A. White's critically acclaimed middle grade fantasy series continues the fan… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Offermann's The Whispering Trees (The Thickety #2) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy

9. Ghost in the Machine (Skeleton Creek, #2)

By: Patrick Carman

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

Although forbidden to see each other, Ryan and Sarah continue their investigation of the mysterious… read more

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10. A Path Begins (The Thickety #1)

By: Andrea Offermann , J.A. White

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Hardcover

A dark, forbidden forest. Vicious beasts. Deadly plants. An evil spellbook. Secrets. Mysteries. Wit… read more

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11. The Secret of Nightingale Wood

By: Lucy Strange

3.75

Format: None pages,

1919.Henry has moved to the countryside with her parents and her baby sister, Piglet - all still sc… read more

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12. モブサイコ100 2 (Mob Psycho 100, #2)

By: ONE

4.17

Format: 267 pages,

Kong Qi noDu menasatoYa Dao De naChao Neng Li deGuai shiiZong Jiao Tuan Ti [(Xiao )] woHuai Mie sas… read more

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13. No Safe Harbour: The Halifax Explosion Diary of Charlotte Blackburn

By: Julie Lawson

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte struggles to find her twin brother after the rest of her family is killed in the tragic H… read more

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14. The Superteacher Project

By: Gordon Korman

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart and The Unteachables, comes a hilarious new s… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Superteacher Project book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"I understand," he announces finally. "It's because I'm‒different." Paul is amazed. "You learned that from the internet?" "Not directly Mr. Aidact explains. "But I accessed a database of books and mov…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

"Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing‒just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it cou…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

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15. The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Lora Senf's The Clackity (Blight Harbor) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Time made the missing different, but it didn't make it go away."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

"I'd gotten so close, so close to being the hero of my own story..."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

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16. Our Castle by the Sea

By: Lucy Strange

4.16

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

In this haunting and compelling follow-up to the instant classic The Secret of Nightingale Wood. Lu… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Strange's Our Castle by the Sea book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1) by Patrick Carman

17. Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)

By: Patrick Carman

4.04

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek . . . and Ryan and Sarah are trying to get to the he… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Carman's Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another."

-Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)

"It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next."

-Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)

"Lo que más odio de escribir en la era digital es que todo acaba por desaparecer. Es como escribir cartas que se evaporan en el aire después de que uno las lea. Por eso hago copias. El papel dura siem…"

-Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)

"Creo que mis escritores favoritos son los que reconocieron que no podían vivir sin escribir. (...), tipos para los que escribir era tan esencial como el aire y el agua. Escribir o morir intentándolo.…"

-Patrick Carman, Skeleton Creek (Skeleton Creek, #1)

Cover of The Ghost of Gosswater by Lucy Strange

18. The Ghost of Gosswater

By: Lucy Strange

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A thrilling Gothic tale from the author of Our Castle by the Sea, shortlisted for the Waterstones C… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Strange's The Ghost of Gosswater book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour, 2) by Ally Carter

19. Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour, 2)

By: Ally Carter

4.25

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five orphans. Two sword-wielding vigilantes. One mansion. No rules. April thought she had her happy… read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour, 2) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Vanishing of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #3) by Phil Hickes

20. The Vanishing of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #3)

By: Phil Hickes

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is determined to discover the truth behind … read more

Similar categories in Phil Hickes's The Vanishing of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #3) book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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21. The Unadoptables

By: Hana Tooke

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The amazing humour and world-building of Nevermoor meets the wisdom and warmth of Rooftoppers in th… read more

Similar categories in Hana Tooke's The Unadoptables book and Sarah Watts's The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"This world needs more absurdity like yours. Please don't ever change."

-Hana Tooke, The Unadoptables

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