Books like City of Ghosts

Looking for books like City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab (Fantasy · grades 4–7)? It’s most often read for its themes of ghosts, friendship, and family. The 10 titlesbelow are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 4–7 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

10 books similar to City of Ghosts

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Why each is a match

Out of My Mind700L
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (4–7).
Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet820L
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (3–6).
Sal and Gabi Break the Universegrades 4–7
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (4–7).
The Dragonet Prophecygrades 3–7
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (3–7).
The Indian in the Cupboardgrades 3–6
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (3–6).
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spellgrades 3–7
Shares themes of family, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (3–7).
The Lost Heirgrades 3–7
Shares themes of family, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (3–7).
The Mark of Athenagrades 5–9
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Fantasy), and overlapping grades (5–9).
The Season of Styx Malone510L
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (3–7).
Three Times Luckygrades 4–7
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (4–7).

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