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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Heaven Shop
Deborah Ellis · 192 pages
Compelling and uplifting, this powerful new work by the author of The Breadwinner trilogy is a contemporary novel that puts a very real face on the African AIDS epidemic, which to date has orphaned more than 11 million children. All royalties for this book will be donated to UNICEF.
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan · 380 pages
A Dog Called Homeless
Sarah Lean · 224 pages
Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.
What Would Joey Do?
Jack Gantos · 229 pages
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
After the Storm
Lauren Brooke · 176 pages
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo · 182 pages
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her becauThe summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tel
Summerlost
Ally Condie · 260 pages
"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."--
Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt · 256 pages
When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. Grams rundown farm isnt perfect, but they can stay together as a family which
Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier
it is a good book you would have a blast reading this book just like I did so that is why I’m putting the book on this website open library
Braced
Alyson Gerber · 304 pages
Rachel Brooks is excited for the new school year. She's finally earned a place as a forward on her soccer team. Her best friends make everything fun. And she really likes Tate, and she's pretty sure he likes her back. After one last appointment with her scoliosis doctor, this will be her best year yet.
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
Gennifer Choldenko · 216 pages
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
The Healing Spell
Kimberley Griffiths Little · 354 pages
Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
Mallory Pike, #1 Fan
Ann M. Martin · 146 pages
Mallory is about to start a new job--as a part-time assistant to her favorite children's book author.
Chrissa
Mary Casanova · 136 pages
Chrissa Maxwell moves to a new school in the middle of the year, and the girls in her fourth-grade class are decidedly unfriendly. On the advice of her grandmother, Chrissa tries first to be nice, and then to ignore the mean girls. But they just won't quit, and when the teasing turns into serious bullying, Chrissa must find the courage to stand strong and speak out.
Wild Things
Clay Carmichael · 241 pages
Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.
Wish
Barbara O'Connor · 227 pages
charlie resse has been making the same wish every day since forth grade but when she is sent to live with family the barly knows it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true that is, until she meets wishbone a skinny stray dog who captures her heart
Finding Perfect
Elly Swartz · 308 pages
A classic-feeling middle-grade novel with a modern twist about a girl dealing with friendship, family, and OCD.
Reel Life Starring Us
Lisa Greenwald · 320 pages
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.
Amina's Voice
Hena Khan · 208 pages
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"-- A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school. After her local mosque if vandalized, she is devastated. Her friend Soojin is talking about chan
Have Wheels, Will Travel
Anne Mazer · 142 pages
All Abby wants are a pair of purple rollerblades! But she needs to earn the money herself. Its hard work, will Abby be able to reach her goal???
Chicken Boy
Frances O'Roark Dowell · 216 pages
Secrets of the Cicada Summer
Andrea Beaty · 171 pages
Lily hasn't spoken a single word in two years. Everyone thinks she can't speak anymore, but the truth is she just chooses not to. Then Tinny, a mean girl who's new to town, finds out Lily's secret and threatens to tell. But Tinny has a secret of her own, and when she goes missing Lily has to decide whether to speak up and save her.