12 best-selling family books like Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

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Everything Else in the Universe

By: Tracy Holczer

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family sto…

If you liked the family plot in Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

1. May B.

By: Caroline Starr Rose

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

I’ve known it since last night: It’s been too long to expect them to return. Something’s happened… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Starr Rose's May B. book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I am Mavis Elizabeth Betterly. I am used to hard work. I can run a household better than Mrs. Oblinger ever could. What does it matter, those things that hold me back? What does it matter when I make…"

-Caroline Starr Rose, May B.

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2. Rain Reign

By: Ann M. Martin

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rose Howard has Asperger's syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). S… read more

Similar categories in Ann M. Martin's Rain Reign book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

3. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1)

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by wa… read more

Similar categories in Gennifer Choldenko's Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

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4. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

By: Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell

3.88

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequence… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • family
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"So many miracles have not yet happened."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble"

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

"He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true."

-Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Cover of Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) by Carol Ryrie Brink

5. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

By: Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ryrie Brink's Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."

-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

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6. Dear Henry, Love Edith

By: Becca Kinzer

3.70

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

After a short and difficult marriage, recently widowed Edith Sherman has learned her lesson. Forget… read more

Similar categories in Becca Kinzer's Dear Henry, Love Edith book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Lightfall: The Dark Times (Lightfall, #3)

By: Tim Probert

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Lights have gone dark in Irpa. Danger lurks as the air grows colder and threats lie in the s… read more

Similar categories in Tim Probert's Lightfall: The Dark Times (Lightfall, #3) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22) by Jennifer Chiaverini

8. The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Cr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Ferris by Kate DiCamillo

9. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) by Katherine Applegate

10. The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan , a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • chapter books
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

11. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • middle grade
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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12. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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13. Nowhere Boy

By: Katherine Marsh

4.34

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brus… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's Nowhere Boy book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
Cover of Live and Let Chai (Seaside Café Mystery, #1) by Bree Baker

14. Live and Let Chai (Seaside Café Mystery, #1)

By: Bree Baker

3.93

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The first book in a delightful new beachside cozy mystery series! Trouble is brewing in Everly's… read more

Similar categories in Bree Baker's Live and Let Chai (Seaside Café Mystery, #1) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Unplugged

By: Gordon Korman

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

From Gordon Korman comes a middle grade novel about a group of kids forced to “unplug” at a wellne… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Unplugged book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fertilizer, meet fan"

-Gordon Korman, Unplugged

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16. The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

By: Beth Morrey

4.06

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The world has changed around Missy Carmichael. At seventy-nine, she's estranged from her daughter; … read more

Similar categories in Beth Morrey's The Love Story of Missy Carmichael book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love was just love, that was all. Flawed, uneven, complicated, overlapping, but still essential"

-Beth Morrey, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

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17. Wildoak

By: C.C. Harrington

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Maggie’s stutter makes going to school hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class… read more

Similar categories in C.C. Harrington's Wildoak book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of In This Moment (Timeless, #2) by Gabrielle  Meyer

18. In This Moment (Timeless, #2)

By: Gabrielle Meyer

4.48

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Meyer's In This Moment (Timeless, #2) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, #2) by B.B. Alston

19. Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, #2)

By: B.B. Alston

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestsel… read more

Similar categories in B.B. Alston's Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations, #2) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate  O'Shaughnessy

20. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's Lasagna Means I Love You book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Castle of Tangled Magic by Sophie   Anderson

21. The Castle of Tangled Magic

By: Sophie Anderson

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Magic and whimsy meet in this Howl's Moving Castle for a new generation from the critically adored … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Anderson's The Castle of Tangled Magic book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
"To live is to make mistakes. I didn't understand her then, but I do now. Making mistakes means we're trying and doing and adventuring and learning. They mean we're living."

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

"It's hard for humans to keep their belief in magic as they grow older. You want to understand things, so you build ideas of what the world is in your minds, then reject anything that doesn't fit into…"

-Sophie Anderson, The Castle of Tangled Magic

Cover of Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee

22. Maizy Chen's Last Chance

By: Lisa Yee

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's Maizy Chen's Last Chance book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Cover of Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2) by Juneau Black

23. Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2)

By: Juneau Black

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The second book in the Shady Hollow series, in which some long-buried secrets come to light, throwi… read more

Similar categories in Juneau Black's Cold Clay (Shady Hollow, #2) book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • middle grade
  • fiction
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24. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
Cover of Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

25. Everything Else in the Universe

By: Tracy Holczer

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the Vietnam War, a young girl struggles to embrace change in this tender family sto… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • chapter books
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
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26. The Winter King

By: Christine Cohen

4.38

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A village trapped in winter, a tyrannical god, and a girl who will do anything to keep her family a… read more

Similar categories in Christine Cohen's The Winter King book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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27. The Miraculous

By: Jess Redman

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records st… read more

Similar categories in Jess Redman's The Miraculous book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

28. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

Similar categories in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
Cover of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

29. The Twilight Garden

By: Sara Nisha Adams

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more

Similar categories in Sara Nisha Adams's The Twilight Garden book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke

30. The Unadoptables

By: Hana Tooke

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The amazing humour and world-building of Nevermoor meets the wisdom and warmth of Rooftoppers in th… read more

Similar categories in Hana Tooke's The Unadoptables book and Tracy Holczer's Everything Else in the Universe

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"This world needs more absurdity like yours. Please don't ever change."

-Hana Tooke, The Unadoptables

27 Best fiction books like Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

Transform Your Habits

May B.

Caroline Starr Rose

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Rain Reign

Ann M. Martin

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo , K.G. Campbell

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)

Carol Ryrie Brink

4.02

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20 best-selling fiction books like Ferris by Kate DiCamillo

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

Katherine Applegate

4.46

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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