16 best-selling fiction books like Ways To Be Me by Libby Scott

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Ways To Be Me

By: Libby Scott

4.47

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Taking place before Can You See Me? and Do You Know Me? this standout prequel follows Tally through…

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1. Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

By: Sarah Hendrickx

4.21

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an A… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hendrickx's Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • disability
  • mental health
"All the qualifications in the world dont mean a thing if you can't hold a conversation."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"I don't have the ability to process my feelings and articulate them; I just feel a whirl of emotions and physical sensations: dizziness, nausea, tight chest and overwhelming emotional pain..."

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Mental health conditions are the outcome of this refusal to admit limitations. Admission of limitations equates to failure for many women with autism. Admitting vulnerability and asking for concessio…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

"Real me only leaks out when the rote-learning system I have devised has insufficient data to maintain the facade. Real me is also allowed out in times of complete comfort and acceptance (it takes a r…"

-Sarah Hendrickx, Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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2. 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 Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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

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3. Being Miss Nobody

By: Tamsin Winter

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

...I am Miss Nobody. Rosalind hates her new secondary school. She's the weird girl who doesn't talk… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. The Goldfish Boy

By: Lisa Thompson

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Kindle Edition

Matthew Corbin suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He hasn't been to school in weeks… read more

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5. Who Let the Gods Out? (Who Let the Gods Out?, #1)

By: Maz Evans , Mary Evans

3.44

Format: 96 pages,

Elliot's mum is ill and his home is under threat, but a shooting star crashes to earth and changes … read more

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6. The Nowhere Emporium

By: Ross MacKenzie

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quit… read more

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7. Missing Me (Girl, Missing, #3)

By: Sophie McKenzie

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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8. Letters from the Lighthouse

By: Emma Carroll

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, no… read more

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9. Sister, Missing (Girl, Missing, #2)

By: Sophie McKenzie

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

It's two years after the events of 'Girl, Missing' and life is not getting any easier for 16-year-o… read more

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10. Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

By: Peter Bunzl

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. . . . Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is m… read more

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11. The Boy at the Back of the Class

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.39

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Told with humor and heart, 'THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS' offers a child's perspective on the r… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Boy at the Back of the Class book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Sometimes all you really need is somewhere to cry without anyone ever knowing."

-Onjali Q. Raúf, The Boy at the Back of the Class

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12. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

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  • childrens
  • coming of age
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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13. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. You Think You Know Me

By: Ayaan Mohamud

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A stunning debut about finding the strength to speak up against hate and fear, for fans of The Hate… read more

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  • coming of age
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. When I See Blue

By: Lily Bailey

4.49

Format: None pages, Paperback

New town, new school, but the bully is in Ben's head ... There are 4 things you should know abou… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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16. No Ballet Shoes in Syria

By: Catherine Bruton

4.42

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asyl… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #2)

By: Katie Kirby

4.52

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The hilarious new sequel to The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks by the bestselling cre… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kirby's The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie Brooks (Lottie Brooks, #2) book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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18. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

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  • childrens
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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19. The Night Bus Hero

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.15

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class … read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Night Bus Hero book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School-Trip (Lottie Brooks, #4)

By: Katie Kirby

4.56

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny illus… read more

Similar categories in Katie Kirby's Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School-Trip (Lottie Brooks, #4) book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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21. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz

By: Robin Stevens

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

The second thrilling and unputdownable mystery starring a new generation of the Detective Society, … read more

Similar categories in Robin Stevens's The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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22. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • childrens
  • coming of age
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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23. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

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  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • disability
  • mental health
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

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24. The Land of Roar

By: Jenny McLachlan

4.07

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Everyone remembers their secret imaginary world...but what if you discovered that yours was real? … read more

Similar categories in Jenny McLachlan's The Land of Roar book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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25. Like a Charm

By: Elle McNicoll

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them... until Ramya Knox. As … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Like a Charm book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
"Exactly. These stories about fairies and giants and vampires and trolls... they may have written them completely wrong. But you're still more likely to find a magical monster in a story than someone …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Ramya, your brain...it's why you can see through Glamour. It's why you're immune to Sirens. It's...it's incredible. I wish I were like you. I've never met anyone that can do what you do. I swear. It …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Books are like little pockets of time. Little artifacts from other cultures and other periods of history. You can go to a museum where they put everything behind glass and won't let you touch things.…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Maybe you don't need the whole world. Maybe you don't need a fridge full of gold stars. You don't need to fit the mold. You just need one person who believes you're right, just as you are. That the g…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

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26. Ways To Be Me

By: Libby Scott

4.47

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Taking place before Can You See Me? and Do You Know Me? this standout prequel follows Tally through… read more

Similar categories in Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • childrens
  • coming of age
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • disability
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27. Show Us Who You Are

By: Elle McNicoll

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Show Us Who You Are book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • childrens
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • disability
"There are no useless facts, Cora."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"Grief is just love asking for more time."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

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28. A Different Sort of Normal

By: Abigail Balfe

4.39

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

*The beautiful true story of one girl's journey growing up autistic - and the challenges she faced … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Balfe's A Different Sort of Normal book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • middle grade
  • disability
  • mental health
"Because if someone had told me when I was younger that it was OK to not be like everybody else, that it was not my job to try to be "normal" and to "fit in," that my way of seeing the world was just …"

-Abigail Balfe, A Different Sort of Normal

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29. Windrush Child

By: Benjamin Zephaniah

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Zephaniah's Windrush Child book and Libby Scott's Ways To Be Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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30. Secret Sister

By: Sophie McKenzie

3.82

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Two sisters, two very different lives: the next edge-of-your-seat thriller by Sophie McKenzie set i… read more

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31. NEW-The Cousins

By: MCMANUS KAREN

4.05

Format: 1000 pages, Paperback

Brand New Deliver In 6-18 Working Days read more

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Tamsin Winter

3.83

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4.39

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4.71

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Katya Balen

4.38

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Pari Thomson

4.20

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4.71

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