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Books like My Many Colored Days

12 books with a reading profile close to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. Practical, inward-looking and contemplative; 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 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.
3

Touching Spirit Bear

by Ben Mikaelsen

inspirational, narrative

Cole Matthews, fifteen, is a violent young offender who has been sentenced to a Native-inspired form of justice called Circle Justice.
4

Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

inspirational, narrative

Jeffrey Lionel Magee is an orphaned runaway with legendary athletic abilities who settles in the racially divided town of Two Mills.
5

Fish in a Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Ally Nickerson has reached the sixth grade by using distractions and bad behavior to hide her inability to read.
6

Love You Forever

by Robert Munsch

Also practical and inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

This story follows the life of a mother and her son through the various stages of his development.
7

Corduroy

by Don Freeman

Also practical · inspirational, narrative

Corduroy is a small bear in green overalls who lives on a shelf in a crowded department store.
8

The Polar Express

by Chris Van Allsburg

Also practical · 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.
9

The Last Sin Eater

by Francine Rivers

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

Esperanza Rising

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

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.
11

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

by Mitch Albom

Also practical and inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Mitch Albom recounts an eight-year odyssey triggered by a request from his childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis, to write his eulogy.
12

Redeeming Love

by Francine Rivers

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Set against the 1850s California Gold Rush, this novel reimagines the biblical account of Hosea and Gomer.

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