Books like Locomotion
12 books with a reading profile close to Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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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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The Kite Runner--the graphic novel
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Amir, a wealthy boy from Kabul, lives with a heavy conscience after failing to intervene when his friend Hassan is assaulted following a kite-fighting tournament.
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3
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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4
American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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5
Ghost Boys
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
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6
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The story follows two women whose lives intersect on a Nigerian beach during a violent encounter involving an oil company’s mercenaries.
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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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8
The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
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9
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
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10
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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11
This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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12
Signal Fires
by Dani Shapiro
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Two families, the Wilfs and the Shenkmans, live as neighbors in a Connecticut town.
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