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Books like When You Reach Me

12 books with a reading profile close to When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. Balanced in tone; an easy read.

  1. 1 In Real Life

    In Real Life

    by Cory Doctorow

    narrative, science fiction

    Anda is a teenage gamer who joins Coarsegold Online, a massive multiplayer role-playing game where she joins a female-led guild focused on hunting "gold farmers." These farmers are players who harvest virtual assets to…

  2. 2 The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    by Peter Brown

    narrative, science fiction

    Roz lives on a remote island after a shipwreck leaves her as the sole survivor of a cargo of robots.

  3. 3 The Last Cuentista

    The Last Cuentista

    by Donna Barba Higuera

    narrative, science fiction

    Petra Peña dreams of becoming a storyteller like her grandmother, but a solar flare sets Earth on a collision course with a comet, forcing her family onto an interstellar ship.

  4. 4 The Measure

    The Measure

    by Nikki Erlick

    narrative, science fiction

    On a single morning, every person over the age of twenty-two worldwide finds a small wooden box on their doorstep.

  5. 5 In the Lives of Puppets

    In the Lives of Puppets

    by T.J. Klune

    narrative, science fiction

    In a secluded forest laboratory, Victor Lawson lives as the only human among recycled machines.

  6. 6 We All Looked Up

    We All Looked Up

    by Tommy Wallach

    narrative, science fiction

    An asteroid called Ardor is going to hit Earth in a matter of weeks, and four Seattle teenagers react in different ways: Peter, a high-school athlete, Anita, a girl who has planned her escape from the town, Eliza, a pop…

  7. 7 Hang the Moon

    Hang the Moon

    by Jeannette Walls

    narrative, accessible

    Set in Prohibition-era Virginia, the story follows Sallie Kincaid, the daughter of a wealthy local patriarch known as the Duke.

  8. 8 How to Stop Time

    How to Stop Time

    by Matt Haig

    narrative, science fiction

    Tom Hazard appears to be an ordinary forty-one-year-old history teacher in London, but he actually possesses a rare physiological condition that causes him to age at a drastically slowed rate.

  9. 9 The Humans

    The Humans

    by Matt Haig

    narrative, science fiction

    An extraterrestrial from the planet Vonnador arrives on Earth to assume the identity of Andrew Martin, a Cambridge mathematics professor.

  10. 10 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

    These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901

    by Nancy E. Turner

    narrative, accessible

    Sarah Agnes Prine chronicles twenty years of her life in the Arizona Territory through handwritten diary entries.

  11. 11 Allegiant

    Allegiant

    by Veronica Roth

    narrative, science fiction

    The narrative follows Tris Prior and Tobias Eaton as they leave the ruins of Chicago to investigate what exists beyond the city’s walled perimeter.

  12. 12 A Fall of Marigolds

    A Fall of Marigolds

    by Susan Meissner

    narrative, accessible

    In 1911, Taryn Michaels witnesses the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in Manhattan, an event that claims the life of the man she loves.

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