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12 books with a reading profile close to Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. Practical, inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

The Running Dream

by Wendelin Van Draanen

Also practical and inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Jessica Carlisle, a track star who loses her leg below the knee following a bus accident, faces the abrupt end of her identity as an athlete.
2

The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

Also practical and clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

On Christmas Eve, a young boy waits in bed for the sound of reindeer bells, only to find a steam engine idling in front of his house.
3

Corduroy

by Don Freeman

Also practical and clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Corduroy is a small bear in green overalls who lives on a shelf in a crowded department store.
4

Fish in a Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Ally Nickerson has reached the sixth grade by using distractions and bad behavior to hide her inability to read.
5

Touching Spirit Bear

by Ben Mikaelsen

Also clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Cole Matthews, fifteen, is a violent young offender who has been sentenced to a Native-inspired form of justice called Circle Justice.
6

Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

Also clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Jeffrey Lionel Magee is an orphaned runaway with legendary athletic abilities who settles in the racially divided town of Two Mills.
7

The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Annie is a young woman whose life was changed by an accident at Ruby Pier, the amusement park where Eddie, the hero of Albom's first novel, spent his life.
8

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Also clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Esperanza Ortega lives a life of luxury on her family’s ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico, until her father’s sudden death and the destruction of her home by her uncles forces a sudden escape.
9

The Last Sin Eater

by Francine Rivers

Also clear-cut · inspirational, narrative

Set in the 1850s Appalachian Mountains, the narrative follows Cadi Forbes, a young girl burdened by the guilt of her sister’s death.
10

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

Also practical and inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Mitch Albom was already running an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
11

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

by Ron Hall

Also practical and inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Denver Moore grew up as a modern-day sharecropper in Louisiana, trapped in a system of manual labor that mirrored nineteenth-century slavery.
12

The Runaway Bunny

by Margaret Wise Brown

Also practical and inward-looking · narrative, accessible

A small rabbit tells his mother that he plans to run away, sparking a theoretical game of chase.

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