Books like Ghost Boys
12 books with a reading profile close to Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
The Hate U Give
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a split existence between her impoverished neighborhood, Garden Heights, and her wealthy suburban prep school.
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2
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhhà Lại
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Ten-year-old Hà lives in Saigon during the Vietnam War, where she stays close to her mother and three brothers while mourning a father missing in action.
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3
The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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4
Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.
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5
Clap When You Land
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Twin sisters Camino and Yahaira Rios live separate lives in the Dominican Republic and New York City, unaware of each other’s existence.
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6
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby lives on a struggling Oklahoma wheat farm during the Great Depression.
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7
Suicide Notes
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jeff Weeks is a fifteen-year-old who wakes up in a psychiatric ward after attempting suicide.
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8
The Jane Austen Book Club
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Six Californians meet monthly for six months to read and talk about one Austen novel each.
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9
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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10
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Ruth Jefferson, a labor and delivery nurse with twenty years of experience, begins her shift at a Connecticut hospital only to be reassigned because a patient’s parents are white supremacists who demand that no African…
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11
The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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12
Jacob Have I Loved
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Set on the isolated island of Rass in the Chesapeake Bay during the 1940s, the story follows Louise Bradshaw’s struggle to find an identity separate from her twin sister, Caroline.
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