29 must-read middle grade books like Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden

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Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu…

"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyone, which was a feature she liked in heroes, although she wished Peter were a girl, or the villain were a girl, or someone in the book besides his boat and his girlfriend (both named Arabella) were a girl."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

If you liked the middle grade plot in Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. The Night Gardener

By: Jonathan Auxier

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier's exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantas… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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2. The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street

By: Lindsay Currie

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspe… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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3. Spirit Hunters

By: Ellen Oh

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

We Need Diverse Books founder Ellen Oh returns with Spirit Hunters, a high-stakes middle grade myst… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Oh's Spirit Hunters book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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4. City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

By: Victoria Schwab

3.88

Format: 272 pages, ebook

From number-one New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocati… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Schwab's City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Stories have power,"

-Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

"You don't think about how unnerving silence is until it's everywhere."

-Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

"There's a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go."

-Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

"No shame in being scared. But there’s a difference between being scared and being scared away ."

-Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

5. Doll Bones

By: Holly Black , Eliza Wheeler

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, … read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's Doll Bones book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

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6. Garlic and the Vampire

By: Bree Paulsen

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more

Similar categories in Bree Paulsen's Garlic and the Vampire book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • fantasy
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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7. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

Cover of Thirteens (Thirteens, #1) by Kate Alice Marshall

8. Thirteens (Thirteens, #1)

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.97

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A sleepy town with a dark secret--and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. Twelve-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Thirteens (Thirteens, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"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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10. The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Evie once again leaves her world behind to rescue Blight Harbor’s ghosts in this second book in the… read more

Similar categories in Lora Senf's The Nighthouse Keeper (Blight Harbor) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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11. Watch Hollow

By: Gregory Funaro

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Deep within the enchanted woods in the town of Watch Hollow stands the once-grand Blackford House, … read more

Similar categories in Gregory Funaro's Watch Hollow book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) by Phil Hickes

12. The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1)

By: Phil Hickes

4.13

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when sh… read more

Similar categories in Phil Hickes's The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1) by Julia Nobel

13. The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1)

By: Julia Nobel

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Emmy's dad disappeared years ago, and with her mother too busy to parent, she's shipped off to Well… read more

Similar categories in Julia Nobel's The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn  Bayron

14. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

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15. What Lives in the Woods

By: Lindsay Currie

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the decrepit Woodmoor Manor…where something in the woods is always watching. From the au… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's What Lives in the Woods book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Brackenbeast (Thirteens, #2) by Kate Alice Marshall

16. Brackenbeast (Thirteens, #2)

By: Kate Alice Marshall

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Last Halloween, Eleanor, Pip, and Otto narrowly escaped the clutches of the evil January Society an… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Brackenbeast (Thirteens, #2) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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17. The Bellwoods Game

By: Celia Krampien

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus , this “beautifully creepy” ( Kirkus Reviews ), high… read more

Similar categories in Celia Krampien's The Bellwoods Game book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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18. It Found Us

By: Lindsay Currie

3.97

Format: 274 pages, None

From the author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White comes a new spooky mystery about a girl de… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's It Found Us book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1) by J.A. White

19. Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1)

By: J.A. White

4.00

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This t… read more

Similar categories in J.A. White's Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And now I realize---so what if I write scary stories? I might hurt someone with nouns and adjectives, but I would never hurt someone for real."

-J.A. White, Nightbooks (Nightbooks, #1)

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20. Scritch Scratch

By: Lindsay Currie

3.92

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A ghost story about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's Scritch Scratch book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) by Kiersten White

21. Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A middle-grade mystery series that's spooky, creepy, and filled with gothic twists! Meet the Sinist… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Wretched Waterpark (Sinister Summer, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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22. This Appearing House

By: Ally Malinenko

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks a… read more

Similar categories in Ally Malinenko's This Appearing House book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1) by Kalyn Josephson

23. Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1)

By: Kalyn Josephson

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One magical inn, two kids with supernatural powers, and an ancient Celtic creature trying to destro… read more

Similar categories in Kalyn Josephson's Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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24. The Girl in White

By: Lindsay Currie

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sweet Molly once lived in Eastport Sweet Molly once loved the sea Sweet Molly lost Liam to the sh… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Girl in White book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Life doesn't always give us the choices we want. All we can do is make the best of things."

-Lindsay Currie, The Girl in White

"Speaking up for people who don’t have a voice is important...It's the right thing to do, even if it's hard."

-Lindsay Currie, The Girl in White

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25. The Island of Monsters (Spirit Hunters #2)

By: Ellen Oh

4.09

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The thrilling sequel to the Texas Bluebonnet Award-nominated Spirit Hunters! We Need Diverse Boo… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Oh's The Island of Monsters (Spirit Hunters #2) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Stitchers (Fright Watch, #1) by Lorien Lawrence

26. The Stitchers (Fright Watch, #1)

By: Lorien Lawrence

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The start of a spine-chilling new horror series about the eerie happenings in a small town   Someth… read more

Similar categories in Lorien Lawrence's The Stitchers (Fright Watch, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Whispering Pines (Whispering Pines, #1) by Heidi Lang

27. Whispering Pines (Whispering Pines, #1)

By: Heidi Lang

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young boy and girl who must protect their small town from otherworldly forces threatening to dest… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Lang's Whispering Pines (Whispering Pines, #1) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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28. Extra Normal

By: Kate Alice Marshall

4.25

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

It's hard to fight the supernatural when you're naturally "un-super." This chilling middle grade is… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Extra Normal book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko

29. Ghost Girl

By: Ally Malinenko

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Small Spaces and Nightbooks, Ally Malinenko’s middle-grade debut is an empoweri… read more

Similar categories in Ally Malinenko's Ghost Girl book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • ghosts
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Glassheart (Thirteens, #3) by Kate Alice Marshall

30. Glassheart (Thirteens, #3)

By: Kate Alice Marshall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The terrifying conclusion to Thirteens and Brackenbeast, for fans of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Str… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's Glassheart (Thirteens, #3) book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Shark Night by R.L. Stine

31. Shark Night

By: R.L. Stine

3.58

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author R. L. Stine, Shark Night is a terrifying seafaring advent… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's Shark Night book and Katherine Arden's Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • horror

28 best-selling fiction books like Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden

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The Night Gardener

Jonathan Auxier

3.16

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The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street

Lindsay Currie

3.79

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Spirit Hunters

Ellen Oh

4.00

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City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)

Victoria Schwab

3.88

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21 must-read audiobook books like Shark Night by R.L. Stine

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Slugfest

Gordon Korman

4.24

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Echoes of Memory

Sara Driscoll

3.94

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Scarewaves

Trevor Henderson

3.89

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It Watches in the Dark (Eek!)

Jeff Strand

3.90

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