Books like Far from the Tree
12 books with a reading profile close to Far from the Tree by Robin Benway. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Saving Francesca
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
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Kira-Kira
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Katie Takeshima is a Japanese-American girl who grows up in Georgia in the 1950s, and her older sister Lynn teaches her the word "kira-kira," meaning glittering, as a way of seeing the world.
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
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The Reading List
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Set in Wembley, London, the story follows Mukesh, a lonely widower struggling to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, and Aleisha, a distressed teenager working a summer job at the local library.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Ona Vitkus is a 104-year-old woman who agrees to let eleven-year-old Quentin, a Boy Scout looking for a service project, visit her on Saturdays to help with chores and chat.
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Hollis Woods is a twelve-year-old girl who has been moved from one foster home to another and has run away from many.
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Yeoju, a woman who abruptly leaves her successful career and marriage after a burnout, opens a small bookstore in a quiet residential neighborhood in Seoul.
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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The narrative centers on five Tokyo residents at different life crossroads, including a restless retail clerk and a retired salaryman.
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Orbiting Jupiter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Joseph is sent to live with a foster family after his parents are unable to care for him due to his mother's mental illness.
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Rules
by Cynthia Lord
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Catherine struggles to balance her own identity with the demands of her family life in Maine.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In 1980s Alabama, Evelyn Couch is a middle-aged housewife trapped in a cycle of emotional stagnation and binge-eating.
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Secret Daughter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In a village in India, a young mother named Kavita gives birth to a girl and, knowing that her husband will not accept a daughter, secretly gives the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai.
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