18 Best fiction books like Wave Me Goodbye by Jacqueline Wilson

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Wave Me Goodbye

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with …

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Cover of Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5) by Holly Smale

1. Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5)

By: Holly Smale

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“My name is Harriet Manners, and I will always be a geek.” The fifth book in the bestselling, aw… read more

Similar categories in Holly Smale's Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • childrens
  • fiction
"Because it's not the walking away from love that's the hard part: it's the falling in. It's losing yourself to it and not knowing who you are without it. It's needing somebody else more than you need…"

-Holly Smale, Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5)

Cover of Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5) by Holly Smale

2. Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5)

By: Holly Smale

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

“My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek.” Harriet Manners knows that the hottest observed pl… read more

Similar categories in Holly Smale's Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • childrens
  • fiction
"A friend. The kind that will happily hurt for you, and you’ll hurt for in return."

-Holly Smale, Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5)

"Oh, Hamlet," I say woodenly. "How, umm, nice of you to come back with a different, err, face and outfit." "I'm the Dr Who of Shakespearean heroes,"

-Holly Smale, Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5)

Cover of First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1) by Enid Blyton

3. First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)

By: Enid Blyton

4.13

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Darrell Rivers begins her happy life at Malory Towers two terms later than the other girls, but she… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Last Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #6) by Enid Blyton

4. Last Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #6)

By: Enid Blyton

4.17

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Blyton's final book about the girls at Malory Towers, Darrell becomes head girl. Unfortunately n… read more

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  • novels
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1) by Noel Streatfeild, Diane Goode

5. Ballet Shoes (Shoes, #1)

By: Noel Streatfeild , Diane Goode

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Pauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their new family by joining the Childr… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Then (Once, #2) by Morris Gleitzman

6. Then (Once, #2)

By: Morris Gleitzman

3.36

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In Then- Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland… read more

Similar categories in Morris Gleitzman's Then (Once, #2) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy #3) by Sophie Cleverly

7. The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy #3)

By: Sophie Cleverly

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Scarlet and Ivy return to creepy Rookwood School for a third mystery adventure! Perfect for fans of… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cleverly's The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy #3) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Wave Me Goodbye by Jacqueline Wilson

8. Wave Me Goodbye

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

September, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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9. Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2)

By: Enid Blyton

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from the First Term at Malory Towers a… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. The London Eye Mystery

By: Siobhan Dowd

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Monday, 24 May, 11.32 a.m. Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye. He tur… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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11. The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)

By: Jill Murphy

3.96

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her s… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

12. Dork Diaries 12: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe

By: Rachel Renée Russell

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Nikki Maxwell's adventures continue in the twelfth installment in the blockbuster #1 New York Times… read more

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Cover of In the Fifth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #5) by Enid Blyton

13. In the Fifth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #5)

By: Enid Blyton

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Games, lessons, quarrels and tricks all form part of a lively term, but the biggest event of all is… read more

Similar categories in Enid Blyton's In the Fifth at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #5) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

14. The Lost Twin (Scarlet and Ivy #1)

By: Sophie Cleverly , None

3.50

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Ivy, I pray that it's you reading this. And if you are, well, I suppose you're the new me... When s… read more

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15. Catch Your Death

By: Ravena Guron

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars - how would you survive? A mind-blowi… read more

Similar categories in Ravena Guron's Catch Your Death book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • fiction
Cover of The Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens

16. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

Britain is at war and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Acti… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #3) by Katie  Kirby

17. The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #3)

By: Katie Kirby

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

De zomervakantie is aangebroken en Lottie heeft GROTE plannen, namelijk: in Frankrijk aan het zwemb… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kirby's The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #3) book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Raúf

18. The Night Bus Hero

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.15

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class … read more

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  • novels
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Epic Adventure (kind of) (Tom Gates, #13) by Liz Pichon

19. Epic Adventure (kind of) (Tom Gates, #13)

By: Liz Pichon

4.49

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

  The thirteenth (lucky for us!) title in the bestselling series, from the brilliantly talented Li… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

By: Holly Bourne

3.94

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • fiction
"Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe."

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they're being the way they're being. It takes time …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"You don't have to stop looking after yourself just to help the world. In fact, sometimes it's better for the world if you put yourself first. That's not being selfish, in fact looking after yourself …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

Cover of White Bird by R.J. Palacio

21. White Bird

By: R.J. Palacio

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Read the novelized version of the celebrated New York Times bestselling story of kindness and unrel… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Palacio's White Bird book and Jacqueline Wilson's Wave Me Goodbye

  • middle grade
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I pictured hope as a candle that needed to keep burning, no matter what."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

"You have two ears but only one mouth for a reason. Try to listen more than you speak."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

"All those years I had watched so many people ridicule and hurt him, and yet his inner resilience had remained intact."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

"In these dark times, it’s those small acts of kindness that keep us alive, after all. They remind us of our humanity."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

15 Best childrens books like Wave Me Goodbye by Jacqueline Wilson

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Head Over Heels (Geek Girl, #5)

Holly Smale

4.14

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Geek Drama (Geek Girl, #2.5)

Holly Smale

3.99

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First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)

Enid Blyton

4.13

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Enid Blyton

4.17

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15 best-selling fiction books like The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy #3) by Sophie Cleverly

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Jolly Foul Play (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #4)

Robin Stevens

4.12

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Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

Robin Stevens

4.21

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The Dance in the Dark (Scarlet and Ivy #3)

Sophie Cleverly

3.67

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Second Form at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #2)

Enid Blyton

3.59

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