9 Best adventure books like Grenade by Alan Gratz

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Grenade

By: Alan Gratz

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Here it is! The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz's NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed pheno…

If you liked the adventure plot in Grenade by Alan Gratz , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Crossover

By: Kwame Alexander

4.24

Format: 245 pages, ebook

"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's The Crossover book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."

-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

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2. Sink or Swim: A Novel of World War II

By: Steve Watkins

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of the youngest boy who served in World War II, Steve Watkins weaves a s… read more

Similar categories in Steve Watkins's Sink or Swim: A Novel of World War II book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II

By: Michael P. Spradlin

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Nazi gun fire can only mean one thing...The Germans are closing in. And twelve-year-old Anton knows… read more

Similar categories in Michael P. Spradlin's The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived, #1)

By: Lauren Tarshis , Scott Dawson , Georgina Ball

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this new fictional series! In … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Tarshis's The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived, #1) book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I don't want to just survive"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"This book made me love reading."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

6. Restart

By: Gordon Korman

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more

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7. The Boy Who Dared

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany… read more

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8. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Rescue book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • war
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10. Linked

By: Gordon Korman

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks in… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Linked book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at."

-Gordon Korman, Linked

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11. Stolen Girl

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces a… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Stolen Girl book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Lifeboat 12

By: Susan Hood

4.19

Format: 337 pages, Unknown Binding

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects h… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12 book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Traitors Among Us

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

World War II may be over. But two sisters are far from safe. Inspired by true events, this is th… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Traitors Among Us book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Iceberg book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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15. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacua… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Heiligman's Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • audiobook
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16. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America

By: Ruth Gruener

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Gruener was a hidden child during the Holocaust. At the end of the war, she and her parents we… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Gruener's Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to America book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
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18. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Words on Fire book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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19. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. A Night Divided

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.34

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's A Night Divided book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

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21. The War Below

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now, Luka has smuggl… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's The War Below book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Making Bombs for Hitler

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is n… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Making Bombs for Hitler book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Escape from East Berlin (Escape From #2)

By: Andy Marino

3.82

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

A historical thriller, chronicling two daring attempts to cross the Berlin Wall, set decades apart.… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from East Berlin (Escape From #2) book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Escape from Chernobyl

By: Andy Marino

3.83

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From Andy Marino, author of The Plot to Kill Hitler series, comes another fast-paced historical thr… read more

Similar categories in Andy Marino's Escape from Chernobyl book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's not merely that life is fragile- but the plans we make, the paths we plot, all of it so easily thrown off course."

-Andy Marino, Escape from Chernobyl

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25. War Stories

By: Gordon Korman

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Restart, a story of telling truth from lies -- and… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's War Stories book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Resistance

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in dange… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Resistance book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"In the knowing, there was peace."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

"But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Resistance

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27. Winterkill

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, this incredibly gripping and timely story set during… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Winterkill book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Grenade

By: Alan Gratz

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Here it is! The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz's NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed pheno… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Grenade book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Don't Tell the Nazis

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.28

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Krystia’s family is hiding Jews from the invading Nazis, but the risks are immense. How much will s… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Don't Tell the Nazis book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I couldn't control that the Nazis considered me "subhuman." But I could control how I treated others."

-Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

"When I was little, Tato told me the story of a frog that was put in a pot of cool water. The pot was put on the stove to simmer, but it heated so gradually that the frog didn't realize it was being c…"

-Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Don't Tell the Nazis

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30. Trapped in Hitler's Web

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch (author of Making Bombs for Hitler and Stolen Girl) delivers a gripping sto… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Trapped in Hitler's Web book and Alan Gratz's Grenade

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

25 best-selling fiction books like Grenade by Alan Gratz

Transform Your Habits

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Sink or Swim: A Novel of World War II

Steve Watkins

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II

Michael P. Spradlin

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived, #1)

Lauren Tarshis , Scott Dawson , Georgina Ball

5.00

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16 must-read fiction books like Winterkill by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Transform Your Habits

Rescue

Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Fort

Gordon Korman

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Two Degrees

Alan Gratz

4.15

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