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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEverything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath · 166 pages
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 249 pages
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
The War I Finally Won
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 400 pages
When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. What is she? World War II continues, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorto
In Between
Jenny B. Jones
Soon after moving to a small Texas town, fifteen-year-old Katie Parker's rebelliousness complicates her life at home and school, but when she is accused of vandalism, she finds hope through a new friendship, involvement in a play, and her foster family's faith in God and her.
Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Sara Pennypacker · 288 pages
A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
"After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent to live with a foster family and struggles with opening herself up to their love"--
Runaway
Wendelin Van Draanen · 256 pages
"It's a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me."Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean.Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan · 380 pages
Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me
Nan Marino · 160 pages
Almost Home
Joan Bauer
Almost Home is a heartwarming tale about a young girl named Sugar. Sugar and her mother have been struggling, but through it all Sugar manages to stay sweet. Just before she and her mother get thrown out of their home, Sugar gets Shush. Shush becomes Sugar's forever companion. Sugar pours her feelings into heartfelt poems and sends them to her former teacher Mr.B, who encourages her to stay strong
Peace, Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson · 147 pages
Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he's living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it's his job to be the "rememberer"—and write down everything that happens while they're growing up. Lonnie's musings are bittersweet; he's happy that he and Lili have new families, but though his new family brings him joy, it also brings new worries. Wi
Find Me
Romily Bernard · 307 pages
When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.
The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket · 162 pages
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star
Rachel Renee Russell · 352 pages
Still Just Grace
Charise Mericle Harper · 160 pages
Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret
Liz Kessler · 272 pages
Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid bff, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself). But their idyll is cut short when Emily learns that the Windsnaps and friends must return to their old home in Brightport, where construction projects are threatening a secret mermaid community under the sea. Neptune's m
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Lauren Child · 189 pages
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.
If the Shoe Fits
Sarah Mlynowski · 171 pages
In this fresh, funny new middle grade series, bestselling YA author Sarah Mlynowski writes for a younger audience for the first time! In each book, Abby and her younger brother Jonah visit the magic mirror in their basement at night, and the mirror transports them inside a different fairy tale. In the second magical adventure, Abby and Jonah are thrown into in Cinderella's story. But a broken foot