Books like Okay for Now
12 books with a reading profile close to Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt. Thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is seized from her Lithuanian home by the Soviet secret police.
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2
Good Night, Mr. Tom
history, narrative
As World War II begins, William Beech is evacuated from a London slum to the English countryside.
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3
The Lion Women of Tehran
history, narrative
Set in mid-twentieth-century Iran, the narrative follows Homa and Ellie, two girls from disparate socioeconomic backgrounds whose lives intersect in a Tehran classroom.
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4
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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5
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
history, narrative
In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian is raised by her physician grandparents to practice medicine, a rare privilege for a woman of the Ming Dynasty.
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6
The Kitchen House
history, narrative
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan, arrives at a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1791 as an indentured servant.
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7
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Nine-year-old Bruno moves from Berlin to a house located next to the Auschwitz concentration camp after his father is promoted to Commandant.
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8
The Help
history, narrative
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, university graduate Skeeter Phelan returns home and finds herself at odds with the rigid social hierarchy of her white peers.
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9
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In 1939 Nazi Germany, Death narrates the life of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living with foster parents on Himmel Street.
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10
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
history, narrative
In 1922, a Bolshevik tribunal sentences Count Alexander Rostov to life imprisonment within the Metropol Hotel.
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11
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
history, narrative
Sage Singer is a baker living in New Hampshire who struggles with isolation and the physical scars of a past car accident.
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12
The Good Lord Bird
history, narrative
Henry Shackleford, an enslaved boy in Kansas Territory, survives an encounter with abolitionist John Brown by pretending to be a girl named Henrietta.
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