19 Top middle grade books like Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Cover of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Impossible Creatures

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.…

"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

If you liked the middle grade plot in Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) by Pari Thomson

1. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)

By: Pari Thomson

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's Greenwild (Greenwild, #1) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1) by Siobhan McDermott

2. The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1)

By: Siobhan McDermott

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A 12-year-old girl wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals in the first book of t… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan McDermott's The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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3. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan

4. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

Similar categories in Hiba Noor Khan's Safiyyah's War book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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5. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates)

By: Sam Sedgman

4.30

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockw… read more

Similar categories in Sam Sedgman's The Clockwork Conspiracy (Isaac Turner Investigates) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
Cover of The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2) by Pari Thomson

7. The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2)

By: Pari Thomson

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Daisy Thistledown's epic adventure continues in the spellbinding sequel to New York Times bestselle… read more

Similar categories in Pari Thomson's The City Beyond the Sea (Greenwild #2) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Snow Girl

By: Sophie Anderson

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning and critically acclaimed Sophie Anderson, comes a fairy-tale story of friendship… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Snow Girl book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3) by A.F. Steadman

9. Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3)

By: A.F. Steadman

4.55

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The Island always wins… Skandar and his sister Kenna are finally both at the Eyrie, but tensions… read more

Similar categories in A.F. Steadman's Skandar and the Chaos Trials (Skandar, #3) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ice Children by M.G. Leonard

10. The Ice Children

By: M.G. Leonard

3.95

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The Week Junior Book Awards: Children’s Audiobook of the Year – Highly Commended. At the stroke … read more

Similar categories in M.G. Leonard's The Ice Children book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Troublemakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #3) by Tamzin Merchant

11. The Troublemakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #3)

By: Tamzin Merchant

4.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Return to the spellbinding magical world of the Hatmakers in this sweeping, epic and exciting new a… read more

Similar categories in Tamzin Merchant's The Troublemakers (Cordelia Hatmaker, #3) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • fantasy
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12. Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2)

By: Hannah Gold

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unmissable follow-up to the award-winning  The Last Bear— perfect for fans of Rosanne Parry and… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Gold's Finding Bear (The Last Bear #2) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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13. The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

By: Jordan Lees

4.32

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

A boy who doesn't believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his mind. Eleven-year-… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Lees's The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer, #1) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

14. In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer, #1)

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.07

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the … read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer, #1) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of Foxlight by Katya Balen

15. Foxlight

By: Katya Balen

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of October, October , winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and … read more

Similar categories in Katya Balen's Foxlight book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Wolf Road by Alice Roberts

16. Wolf Road

By: Alice Roberts

4.00

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

The greatest adventure of all begins here, in the epic new prehistoric children's novel from bestse… read more

Similar categories in Alice Roberts's Wolf Road book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

17. Island of Whispers

By: Frances Hardinge

4.35

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conju… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Island of Whispers book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Kindness is not weakness. To be kind in this unkind world is walking through a battlefield without armour or sword. It takes courage and strength to be kind."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"They do not touch you. But they will trick you into touching them. Falter-moths, grief-winged. Things of doubt and confusion that feed on loss. If you touch them, they will feed on you..."

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"There was a trick to seeing and hearing the Dead, like the trick to falling asleep. You had to not quite listen, not quite look, not quite think. You let the edges of your mind slip into the right so…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

"Everywhere Milo saw traces of his father - his chair, his bowl, the roof he had planned to mend. The worst thing about losing somebody is that, even after you survive a difficult day, the next mornin…"

-Frances Hardinge, Island of Whispers

Cover of Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests by Sam Copeland

18. Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests

By: Sam Copeland

4.09

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious new fantasy adventure from the author of Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.Alex is a nor… read more

Similar categories in Sam Copeland's Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • fantasy
  • adventure
Cover of Ember Spark and the Thunder of Dragons by Abi Elphinstone

19. Ember Spark and the Thunder of Dragons

By: Abi Elphinstone

4.35

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

A magical NEW story filled with adventure, wonder and edge-of-your-seat excitement, set in a world … read more

Similar categories in Abi Elphinstone's Ember Spark and the Thunder of Dragons book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • dragons
Cover of I Am Rebel by Montgomery Ross

20. I Am Rebel

By: Montgomery Ross

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Montgomery Ross's I Am Rebel book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

21. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) book and Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures

  • childrens
  • dragons
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

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Pari Thomson

4.20

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Siobhan McDermott

3.91

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Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Nazneen Ahmed Pathak

3.78

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4.29

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Lisa Fipps

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