Books like The Crossover
12 books with a reading profile close to The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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Blubber
by Judy Blume
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In a suburban fifth-grade classroom, Jill Brenner joins a group of girls led by Wendy to systematically torment their classmate Linda.
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The School of Essential Ingredients
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Lillian teaches a weekly cooking class at her restaurant, where eight students gather to learn the mechanics of food preparation.
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Evening Class
by Maeve Binchy
Also clear-cut · 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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4
The Wednesday Wars
Also clear-cut · 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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5
The Reading List
Also clear-cut · 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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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Hollis Woods is a twelve-year-old girl who has been moved from one foster home to another and has run away from many.
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7
Wishtree
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Red, a northern red oak, serves as the neighborhood wishtree where residents tie scraps of fabric containing their hopes.
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8
Rules
by Cynthia Lord
Also clear-cut · 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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9
Crenshaw
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Jackson is a young boy who values facts and logic, but his family faces the constant threat of homelessness.
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10
The Truth About Melody Browne
by Lisa Jewell
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Melody Browne is a woman who has no memory of her life before the age of seven, when her house burned down.
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11
Liar & Spy
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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Saving Francesca
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
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