10 Best audiobook books like A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby

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A Pocketful of Stars

By: Aisha Bushby

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When I next open my eyes, I’m back . . . in front of the house again. It’s night time. The stars w…

"The truth is, even though Mum and I look alike, we’re not very similar in other ways. Often it’s like we’re on different pages of the same book, always just missing each other as the page turns."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

"The truth is, even though Mum and I look alike, we’re not very similar in other ways. Often it’s like we’re on different pages of the same book, always just missing each other as the page turns."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

"I thought we had to act the same on the outside to be similar, but we don’t. What matters is what we’re like inside. And just because we don’t like the same things doesn’t mean we’re not similar."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

"I thought we had to act the same on the outside to be similar, but we don’t. What matters is what we’re like inside. And just because we don’t like the same things doesn’t mean we’re not similar."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

If you liked the audiobook plot in A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Girl of Ink and Stars

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.68

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Girl of Ink and Stars book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars

2. Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book

By: Rod Campbell

4.60

Format: None pages, Board Book

A child writes to the zoo for a pet. The zoo send a series of unsuitable pets, revealed behind flap… read more

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3. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Something Like Home book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. Break (Click #6)

By: Kayla Miller

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Olive is less-than-excited to be spending Spring Break stuck with her dad...will she be able to mak… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Miller's Break (Click #6) book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Saving Sunshine

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.06

Format: 224 pages, ebook

It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. … read more

Similar categories in Saadia Faruqi's Saving Sunshine book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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8. The Star Outside My Window

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.32

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

My mum is up there somewhere. She's waiting -- I can feel it. I just have to find her in time, that… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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9. Barely Floating

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling story full of heart about how one twelve-year-old channels her rage into synchronized sw… read more

Similar categories in Lilliam Rivera's Barely Floating book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. A Pocketful of Stars

By: Aisha Bushby

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When I next open my eyes, I’m back . . . in front of the house again. It’s night time. The stars w… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The truth is, even though Mum and I look alike, we’re not very similar in other ways. Often it’s like we’re on different pages of the same book, always just missing each other as the page turns."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

"I thought we had to act the same on the outside to be similar, but we don’t. What matters is what we’re like inside. And just because we don’t like the same things doesn’t mean we’re not similar."

-Aisha Bushby, A Pocketful of Stars

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11. Turtle Boy

By: M. Evan Wolkenstein

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-look… read more

Similar categories in M. Evan Wolkenstein's Turtle Boy book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Finally Heard (Finally Seen #2)

By: Kelly Yang

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen in which … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Finally Heard (Finally Seen #2) book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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13. A Sky of Paper Stars

By: Susie Yi

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Paper Girl is a heartrending middle-grade graphic novel about a girl’s ill-fated wish to fit in, pe… read more

Similar categories in Susie Yi's A Sky of Paper Stars book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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14. Just Lizzie

By: Karen Wilfrid

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this beautifully written contemporary middle grade debut, an eighth grader's study of asexuality… read more

Similar categories in Karen Wilfrid's Just Lizzie book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"How do you “start"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"I thought having a name for myself, asexual, would be the answer. It isn’t, though. I don’t just want to know myself. I want other people to know me, understand me, believe me. So that I can actually…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

"Sarah Nan takes me by the wrist and pulls me away. 'Lizzie, you were talking to a boy !' 'It's no big deal,' I tell her. Maybe it was--because it didn't feel like talking to a boy. It felt like talki…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

" Asexual . The prefix 'a-' means 'not.' Hasn't my life always been about what I'm not? Not pretty, not athletic, not interested, not ready--but now here's this word that tells me that what I am not i…"

-Karen Wilfrid, Just Lizzie

Cover of Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) by Nora Dåsnes

15. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

Similar categories in Nora Dåsnes's Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. The Partition Project

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging and moving middle grade novel, Saadia Faruqi writes about a contemporary Pakistani… read more

Similar categories in Saadia Faruqi's The Partition Project book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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17. Ruptured

By: Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The sensitive, suspenseful story of a family coping with a life-changing tragedy, told in stunning … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's Ruptured book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Hidden Truths

By: Elly Swartz

4.17

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

How far would you go to keep a promise? Told from alternating points of view, Hidden Truths is a st… read more

Similar categories in Elly Swartz's Hidden Truths book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Mid-Air

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wa… read more

Similar categories in Alicia D. Williams's Mid-Air book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. I Am Rebel

By: Montgomery Ross

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Montgomery Ross's I Am Rebel book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • childrens
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21. It Happened to Anna

By: Tehlor Kay Mejia

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This spine-tingling ghost story follows a tween girl who’s being literally haunted by loneliness un… read more

Similar categories in Tehlor Kay Mejia's It Happened to Anna book and Aisha Bushby's A Pocketful of Stars

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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The Girl of Ink and Stars

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.68

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

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Break (Click #6)

Kayla Miller

4.21

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Lindsay Currie

4.03

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The Secret Language of Birds

Lynne Kelly

4.22

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And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

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Jamie Sumner

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