19 must-read middle grade books like Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story by Andrea L. Rogers

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Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

By: Andrea L. Rogers

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldie…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story by Andrea L. Rogers , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Along Came a Dog

By: Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The friendship of a little red hen and a homeless dog who appoints himself her protector ‘is treate… read more

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  • middle grade
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Meet Josefina: An American Girl (American Girls: Josefina, #1) by Valerie Tripp, Susan McAliley, Jean-Paul Tibbles

2. Meet Josefina: An American Girl (American Girls: Josefina, #1)

By: Valerie Tripp , Susan McAliley , Jean-Paul Tibbles

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Josefina Montoya is growing up on a rancho near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1824. Ever since Mama died… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Lyddie

By: Katherine Paterson

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

When ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their fa… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Elijah of Buxton

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel f… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Tortilla Sun

By: Jennifer Cervantes

4.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while u… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

6. Early Modern Times: From Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Niners (The Story of the World #3)

By: Susan Wise Bauer

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives--and our children need to learn… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens

7. Day of Tears

By: Julius Lester

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, G… read more

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8. 26 Fairmount Avenue (26 Fairmount Avenue, #1)

By: Tomie dePaola

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A Newbery Honor Book Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938,… read more

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9. How I Became a Ghost

By: Tim Tingle

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Hardcover

Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A G… read more

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10. The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

By: Louise Erdrich

4.04

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Inga… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend."

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

"Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. She had never had any children, and e…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

11. The Scarecrow and His Servant

By: Philip Pullman

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no noti… read more

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12. As Long as the Rivers Flow

By: Larry Loyie , Constance Brissenden , None

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction In the 1800s, the education of … read more

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13. Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Ban This Book book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

14. Night Bird: A Story of the Seminole Indians

By: Kathleen V. Kudlinski , James Watling

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1840 Night Bird, whose clan of Seminole Indians is fighting to preserve its traditional way of l… read more

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15. Jefferson's Sons

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thom… read more

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16. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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17. Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)

By: Amy Timberlake

4.06

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

No one wants a skunk.They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock R… read more

Similar categories in Amy Timberlake's Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1) book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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18. I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lau… read more

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  • survival
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 (I Survived #22)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was―and still is―the deadliest avalanche in America’s history. La… read more

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  • survival
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. 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

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  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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21. I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived, #17)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the historic grizzly bear attacks in Glaci… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Supergifted (Ungifted, #2)

By: Gordon Korman

4.20

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The highly anticipated sequel to Ungifted from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman. … read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Supergifted (Ungifted, #2) book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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23. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. 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

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Midsummer's Mayhem

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The sun-dried tomatoes were robust and sweet and played well with the salty Parmesan. The oregano added a floral note, and the fennel made it energizing and playful."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"If he were a baked treat, he'd be a seven-layer bar- the perfect combination of sweet and salty, exotic coconut and homey caramel, and supported by a good, strong, buttery shortbread crust."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"Kiera reached into the paper bag and held out one of Vik's cupcakes. Even in the dim and musty hangout, it practically glowed with beauty, and the roses smelled intoxicating. Roses, for love of all t…"

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"A lime tart with pomegranate glaze." I put the tart on the counter. The crust was the perfect shade of golden brown, and as I cut into it, the bright red glaze contrasted beautifully with the pale gr…"

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

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26. Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, who risked everything for a b… read more

Similar categories in Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"As Burwell prattles on, Ona finds her resolve. When he finally finishes speaking, she looks him straight in the eyes. Her response is final, and fierce. "I am free now and choose to remain so."

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

"When asked if she was sorry to have left the Washingtons, particularly because her life had been so difficult and sorrow-filled since she'd escaped to New Hampshire, she replied with strength and the…"

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

"Worse yet, human nature was allowed no outlet in the motional life of the enslaved. There was no acceptable place for the range of human emotions. If you were angry, you had to swallow your rage. If …"

-Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

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27. Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

By: Andrea L. Rogers

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldie… read more

Similar categories in Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story book and Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

  • survival
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • native american
  • young adult
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. Adam¿s Atomic Adventures

By: Alice L. Baxter

4.00

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Adam is having a miserable day. First, he causes his team to lose the soccer game, and then he gets… read more

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29. Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

4.46

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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30. Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story (Girls Survive)

By: Salima Alikhan

4.05

Format: 104 pages, Library Binding

Although Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a … read more

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  • survival
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Maurice Sendak , Meindert DeJong

3.91

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3.90

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2.62

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4.58

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