Books like Mockingbird
12 books with a reading profile close to Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine. Inward-looking, contemplative, clear-cut and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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The Black Flamingo
by Dean Atta
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Michael, a mixed-race teenager of Jamaican and Greek-Cypriot heritage, grows up in London feeling he is never enough of any single identity.
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The Tiger Rising
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Rob Horton lives in a Florida motel with his father, mourning his mother’s death while repressing his grief through a skin rash on his legs.
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One for the Murphys
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Carley Connors is placed with the Murphys, a foster family in Massachusetts, after her mother's boyfriend injures her.
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The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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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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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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Bridge to Terabithia
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Jess Aarons, a fifth-grader living in rural Virginia, spends his summer training to be the fastest runner in his school.
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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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A List of Cages
by Robin Roe
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
High school senior Adam Blake is surprised to find that his new assigned shadow for the school day is Julian, his former foster brother whom he hasn't seen in years.
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Maame
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twenty-five-year-old Maddie Wright spends her days navigating a high-pressure London office and her nights as the sole caregiver for her father, who struggles with late-stage Parkinson’s disease.
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A Man Called Ove
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Fifty-nine-year-old Ove is a steadfast misanthropist who enforces neighborhood association rules with militant precision and drives a Saab.
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