Books like Bridge to Terabithia
12 books with a reading profile close to Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
The Tiger Rising
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
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.
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The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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3
Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
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.
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4
Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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Mockingbird
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Ten-year-old Caitlin Ann Smith lives with Asperger’s syndrome in a world of black-and-white rules and literal interpretations.
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The Black Flamingo
by Dean Atta
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
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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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
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8
Before I Die
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has lived with leukemia for four years and has decided to stop her medical treatments.
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The Last Time We Say Goodbye
by Cynthia Hand
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
High school senior Lexie Tyson faces the aftermath of her younger brother Tyler’s suicide.
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10
A Man Called Ove
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Fifty-nine-year-old Ove is a steadfast misanthropist who enforces neighborhood association rules with militant precision and drives a Saab.
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The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
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The Astonishing Color of After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
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