Books like The Weird Sisters
12 books with a reading profile close to The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
The Secret Life of Bees
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1964 South Carolina, the story follows fourteen-year-old Lily Owens, who flees her abusive father and the memory of her mother’s accidental death.
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2
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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3
Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.
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4
The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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5
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Three thieves hiding in an abandoned general store discover they can communicate with the past through letters left in the store's old mailbox.
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6
Two Boys Kissing
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Harry and Craig, two former boyfriends, attempt to set a new world record for the longest continuous kiss.
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The Hate U Give
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a split existence between her impoverished neighborhood, Garden Heights, and her wealthy suburban prep school.
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8
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby lives on a struggling Oklahoma wheat farm during the Great Depression.
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9
Ghost Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
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10
Traumsammler
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The narrative begins in a small Afghan village where a father tells his children a myth about a giant stealing a beloved son, a story that foreshadows a forced separation.
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
At Alabaster Preparatory Academy, sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks discovers that her boyfriend belongs to the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound, an all-male secret society with deep historical roots.
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12
The Invention of Wings
narrative, accessible
The story follows Sarah Grimké, the daughter of a wealthy Charleston judge, and Hetty "Handful," the enslaved girl gifted to Sarah on her eleventh birthday.
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