Books like Cross Roads
12 books with a reading profile close to Cross Roads by William Paul Young. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
The Fifth Mountain
by Paulo Coelho
inspirational, narrative
In 870 BC, the prophet Elijah is ordered by God to leave Israel after Queen Jezebel begins to kill the prophets.
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2
The Valkyries
by Paulo Coelho
inspirational, narrative
Paulo Coelho describes forty days he and his wife Chris spent in the Mojave Desert in 1986, hoping to reach his guardian angel.
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3
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
inspirational, narrative
Edward Tulane is a china rabbit with an expansive wardrobe of silk suits and a pocket watch, living with a girl named Abilene.
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4
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
inspirational, narrative
In a Glasgow hospital terminal ward, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson meets Margot Macrae, an eighty-three-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery.
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5
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa
inspirational, narrative
The story follows Nana, a former stray cat with a hooked tail, and his owner, Satoru, as they drive across Japan in a silver van.
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6
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
inspirational, narrative
An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.
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7
The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
inspirational, narrative
Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a rural Nigerian village where her father sells her into marriage to a local polygamist to pay the rent.
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8
Sea Prayer
inspirational, narrative
Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.
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9
THEO OF GOLDEN
by Allen Levi
inspirational, narrative
Theo enters the quiet town of Golden with a specific, unusual mission.
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10
Dead Poets Society
by N.H. Kleinbaum, Tom Schulman
inspirational, narrative
Set in 1959 at Welton Academy, a strict boarding school for boys, the narrative follows students Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, and their peers as they encounter a new English teacher named John Keating.
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11
Because of Winn-Dixie
inspirational, narrative
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her father, a preacher who struggles to talk about Opal’s absent mother.
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12
Go as a River
by Shelley Read
narrative, literary
Victoria Nash is a seventeen-year-old girl managing her family’s peach orchard in Iola, Colorado, during the 1940s.
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