25 must-read middle grade books like Stargazing by Jen Wang

Cover of Stargazing by Jen Wang

Stargazing

By: Jen Wang

4.17

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Stargazing by Jen Wang , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

1. Ghosts

By: Raina Telgemeier

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Ma… read more

Similar categories in Raina Telgemeier's Ghosts book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang

2. In Real Life

By: Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang

3.81

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of … read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's In Real Life book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost. – You spent 90 gold on this?? – 90 gold is nothing when you're the baddest bitch in the virtual universe."

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"– I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt."

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabular…"

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

"When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to p…"

-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life

Cover of Smile (Smile, #1) by Raina Telgemeier

3. Smile (Smile, #1)

By: Raina Telgemeier

4.23

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, … read more

Similar categories in Raina Telgemeier's Smile (Smile, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why don't you bang it against the wall a few times? That way, when you stop banging, it'll hurt less!"

-Raina Telgemeier, Smile (Smile, #1)

Cover of All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson

4. All's Faire in Middle School

By: Victoria Jamieson

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of Roller Girlis back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Jamieson's All's Faire in Middle School book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction

5. Pashmina

By: Nidhi Chanani

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years a… read more

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6. Roller Girl

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For fans of Raina Telgemeier’s Smile, a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving j… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Jamieson's Roller Girl book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile

7. Sunny Side Up

By: Jennifer L. Holm , Matthew Holm , Lark Pien

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first sh… read more

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8. El Deafo

By: Cece Bell , None

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At… read more

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Cover of Swing it, Sunny (Sunny #2) by Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm

9. Swing it, Sunny (Sunny #2)

By: Jennifer L. Holm , Matthew Holm

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . m… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Swing it, Sunny (Sunny #2) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • juvenile

10. The Witch Boy

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more

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11. Real Friends

By: Shannon Hale , LeUyen Pham

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When best friends are not forever . . . Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since the… read more

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Cover of Sheets (Sheets, #1) by Brenna Thummler

12. Sheets (Sheets, #1)

By: Brenna Thummler

3.84

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry bu… read more

Similar categories in Brenna Thummler's Sheets (Sheets, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
"patience is the thread of healing."

-Brenna Thummler, Sheets (Sheets, #1)

Cover of New Kid (New Kid, #1) by Jerry Craft

13. New Kid (New Kid, #1)

By: Jerry Craft

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit … read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's New Kid (New Kid, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas

14. Swim Team

By: Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more

Similar categories in Johnnie Christmas's Swim Team book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

15. Snapdragon

By: Kat Leyh

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more

Similar categories in Kat Leyh's Snapdragon book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol

16. Be Prepared

By: Vera Brosgol

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost. All Ve… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • juvenile
Cover of When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson

17. When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.62

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Jamieson's When Stars Are Scattered book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."

-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

Cover of Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd

18. Allergic

By: Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to… read more

Similar categories in Megan Wagner Lloyd's Allergic book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"Your heart’s expanded enough, Mom! Let’s go!"

-Megan Wagner Lloyd, Allergic

Cover of Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega

19. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's Frizzy book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

Cover of Best Friends (Real Friends, #2) by Shannon Hale

20. Best Friends (Real Friends, #2)

By: Shannon Hale

4.30

Format: None pages, None

Sequel to Shannon Hale's award-winning graphic novel memoir, "Real Friends", this new graphic memoi… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Hale's Best Friends (Real Friends, #2) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • juvenile
Cover of Click (Click #1) by Kayla Miller

21. Click (Click #1)

By: Kayla Miller

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Olive wants to get in on the act . . . . . . Any act! Olive “clicks” with everyone in the fifth… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Miller's Click (Click #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Nat Enough (Nat Enough #1) by Maria Scrivan

22. Nat Enough (Nat Enough #1)

By: Maria Scrivan

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller! Making friends isn't easy, but losing them is even harder!Natalie has … read more

Similar categories in Maria Scrivan's Nat Enough (Nat Enough #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Stepping Stones by Lucy Knisley

23. Stepping Stones

By: Lucy Knisley

4.03

Format: 224 pages, None

Jen is used to not getting what she wants. So suddenly moving to the country and getting new stepsi… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Stepping Stones book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Stargazing by Jen Wang

24. Stargazing

By: Jen Wang

4.17

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both… read more

Similar categories in Jen Wang's Stargazing book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Twins by Varian Johnson

25. Twins

By: Varian Johnson

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a… read more

Similar categories in Varian Johnson's Twins book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Making Friends (Making Friends, #1) by Kristen Gudsnuk

26. Making Friends (Making Friends, #1)

By: Kristen Gudsnuk

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danielle. All her friends were in the same room and she knew wha… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Gudsnuk's Making Friends (Making Friends, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

27. The Cardboard Kingdom

By: Chad Sell

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their or… read more

Similar categories in Chad Sell's The Cardboard Kingdom book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) by Emma Steinkellner

28. The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

By: Emma Steinkellner

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Magic is harder than it looks. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she’s ab… read more

Similar categories in Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
"I was afraid once... And because I was afraid, my magic was weak and full of fear... If you do not trust in yourself, then you shall indeed fall. Trust in yourself, Moth. When you set your magic free…"

-Emma Steinkellner, The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

Cover of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women (Classic Graphic Remix, 1) by Rey Terciero

29. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women (Classic Graphic Remix, 1)

By: Rey Terciero

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumph… read more

Similar categories in Rey Terciero's Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women (Classic Graphic Remix, 1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
"Beth, you have such great potential. Please accept this gift and foster your voice."

-Rey Terciero, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women (Classic Graphic Remix, 1)

Cover of All Summer Long (Eagle Rock, #1) by Hope Larson

30. All Summer Long (Eagle Rock, #1)

By: Hope Larson

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships, written and illustrated by… read more

Similar categories in Hope Larson's All Summer Long (Eagle Rock, #1) book and Jen Wang's Stargazing

  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary

23 Top fiction books like Stargazing by Jen Wang

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Ghosts

Raina Telgemeier

4.22

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In Real Life

Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang

3.81

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Smile (Smile, #1)

Raina Telgemeier

4.23

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16 must-read fiction books like Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega

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Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

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Allergic

Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.25

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Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

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Squished: A Graphic Novel

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4.17

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