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Books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

12 books with a reading profile close to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Ponyboy Curtis lives on the east side of town, where being a Greaser means constant conflict with the wealthy Socs.
2

The Hundred Dresses

by Eleanor Estes

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Wanda Petronski, a Polish immigrant girl in a small American town, wears the same faded blue dress to school every day.
3

The Body

by Stephen King

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Four twelve-year-old boys in a small Maine town in 1960, Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern, set off along the railroad tracks to find the body of a missing boy, Ray Brower, who was hit by a train.
4

Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Set in the summer of 1952 in Green Town, Illinois, the narrative follows twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding as he awakens to the conscious realization that he is alive.
5

Charlotte’s Web

by E.B. White

Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary

After Fern Arable saves a runt pig named Wilbur from her father’s axe, the animal is moved to a nearby farm where he faces an eventual winter slaughter.
6

Love Letters to the Dead

by Ava Dellaira

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

When Laurel’s English teacher assigns a letter to a deceased person, the high school freshman begins a secret journal addressed to figures like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
7

The Tiger Rising

by Kate DiCamillo

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Twelve-year-old Rob Horton lives in a Florida motel with his father, mourning his mother’s death while repressing his grief through a skin rash on his legs.
8

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

narrative, literary

Milo is a boy suffering from a chronic sense of boredom until a mysterious toy tollbooth appears in his room.
9

The Thing About Jellyfish

by Ali Benjamin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
10

Clap When You Land

by Elizabeth Acevedo

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Twin sisters Camino and Yahaira Rios live separate lives in the Dominican Republic and New York City, unaware of each other’s existence.
11

Suicide Notes

by Michael Thomas Ford

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Jeff Weeks is a fifteen-year-old who wakes up in a psychiatric ward after attempting suicide.
12

The Black Flamingo

by Dean Atta

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary

Michael, a mixed-race teenager of Jamaican and Greek-Cypriot heritage, grows up in London feeling he is never enough of any single identity.

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