Books like Raymie Nightingale
12 books with a reading profile close to Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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A Mango-Shaped Space
by Wendy Mass
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Mia Winchell has synesthesia: she sees sounds as colours and letters carry colours too.
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Liar & Spy
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Seventh-grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building after his father loses his job and his mother begins working double shifts at the hospital.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Ona Vitkus is a 104-year-old woman who agrees to let eleven-year-old Quentin, a Boy Scout looking for a service project, visit her on Saturdays to help with chores and chat.
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Orbiting Jupiter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Joseph is sent to live with a foster family after his parents are unable to care for him due to his mother's mental illness.
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5
Evening Class
by Maeve Binchy
narrative, accessible
In late-twentieth-century Dublin, a schoolteacher named Aidan Lynch organizes an evening Italian language course to escape his stagnant career.
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rebecca Winter, a once-famous New York City photographer, finds her bank account dwindling and her artistic relevance fading as she enters her sixties.
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7
Girl in Translation
by Jean Kwok
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Kimberly Chang is eleven when she and her mother leave Hong Kong for Brooklyn, with little English and a debt to her aunt Paula, who owns a clothing factory.
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The View from Saturday
narrative, accessible
In 1996, the Academic Bowl competition in New York’s Epiphany school district brings together four sixth-grade students: Noah, Nadia, Ethan, and Julian.
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9
The Wednesday Wars
narrative, accessible
Set in 1967 Long Island, Holling Hoodhood is the only seventh grader at Camillo Junior High who does not attend weekly religious education.
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The Reading List
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in Wembley, London, the story follows Mukesh, a lonely widower struggling to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, and Aleisha, a distressed teenager working a summer job at the local library.
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Far from the Tree
by Robin Benway
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grace, an only child who recently placed her own baby for adoption, discovers she is a middle child.
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Rules
by Cynthia Lord
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Catherine struggles to balance her own identity with the demands of her family life in Maine.
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