Books like Walk Two Moons
12 books with a reading profile close to Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
Also inward-looking and contemplative · personal growth, narrative
Fredrik Backman presents a series of personal essays written to his infant son, mixing practical advice with humorous confessions about early fatherhood.
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
Also inward-looking · personal growth, narrative
Ellie is a young girl who has lived by a set of "Fat Girl Rules" since her fifth birthday party, a mental list designed to make her invisible and minimize the space she occupies.
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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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Elsewhere
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall dies in a hit-and-run accident and wakes up on a ship heading to Elsewhere, a land where the dead age backward toward infancy.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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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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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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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Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
When Laurel’s English teacher assigns a letter to a deceased person, the high school freshman begins a secret journal addressed to figures like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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Before I Die
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has lived with leukemia for four years and has decided to stop her medical treatments.
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