If following the “little furry girl” from the Beatie Bow game into 1873 Sydney and building a tender bond with Beatie, Judah, Dovey, and stern Granny hooked you, you’ll love how Tom’s Midnight Garden turns a lonely boy’s nights into visits with Hatty in a Victorian garden. Like Abigail learning the truth of the Bow family and the Foresight, Tom unravels a past life’s secrets—quietly, emotionally—until a final reveal lands with the same aching, time‑crossed resonance.

You savored how 1870s The Rocks felt tangible—the cramped lanes, laundry steam, shop work, and Granny’s household rhythms surrounding Abigail as she hid her origin. In The Root Cellar, Rose slips from modern Ontario into the American Civil War era, and the world is just as textured: kitchen heat, muddy roads, wartime shortages, and the small generosities that keep her going. As with Abigail’s stay with the Bows, the past becomes a home you can smell and touch, and leaving it hurts.

Abigail’s struggle to decide who she is—caught between her fractured family in present‑day Sydney and her place in the Bow household, even as the Foresight tugs at her—mirrors Charlotte’s dilemma when she wakes in 1918 wearing another girl’s life. Like Abigail learning how much of herself to reveal to Beatie and Judah, Charlotte must choose which loyalties define her. It’s the same tender, eerie unpacking of identity across time that made Playing Beatie Bow stick.

If Judah’s devotion to Dovey—and Abigail’s bittersweet place beside that fate—moved you, The Girl from Everywhere delivers that same heart‑pull. Nix sails on her father’s time‑traveling ship, torn between first love and her father’s dangerous quest to recover a past that could erase her. Like Abigail’s choice to protect the Bow family despite her feelings, Nix learns when love means letting go, all against vividly drawn historical settings you can step into.

Abigail finds belonging with Beatie, Judah, Dovey, and Granny—people who shelter and shape her until she’s ready to return home changed. In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Jacob discovers a time‑looped household that becomes his refuge and responsibility. As with the Bow family’s fierce care and the secret of the Foresight, Jacob’s ‘peculiar’ family offers purpose, danger, and a promise that choosing your people can remake your future.