21 must-read middle grade books like Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald

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Game Changer

By: Tommy Greenwald

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. House Arrest

By: K.A. Holt

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Holt's House Arrest book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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2. Knockout

By: K.A. Holt

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Levi just wants to be treated like a typical kid. As a baby, he had a serious disease that caused h… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Holt's Knockout book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • sports

3. Ninth Ward

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival… read more

Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ninth Ward book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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4. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slugfest book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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5. 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 Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • mystery
  • 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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6. A Work in Progress

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starr… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett Lerner's A Work in Progress book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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 Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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8. 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 Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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9. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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10. Black Brother, Black Brother

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Black Brother, Black Brother book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • sports
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11. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Martín's Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • middle grade
  • family
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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12. 96 Miles

By: J.L. Esplin

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dad always said if things get desperate, it’s okay to drink the water in the toilet. I never though… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Esplin's 96 Miles book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But the thing is, if you do survive, when it's all said and done, you still have to live with yourself."

-J.L. Esplin, 96 Miles

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13. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

14. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Iveliz Explains It All book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

Cover of What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

15. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

Similar categories in Claire Swinarski's What Happened to Rachel Riley? book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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16. What About Will

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle … read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's What About Will book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • sports
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17. Becoming Muhammad Ali

By: James Patterson

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a critically acclaimed biographical novel of … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Becoming Muhammad Ali book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • sports
  • middle grade
Cover of Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald

18. Game Changer

By: Tommy Greenwald

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • football
  • sports
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19. Carry Me Home

By: Janet Fox

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, “it’s bes… read more

Similar categories in Janet Fox's Carry Me Home book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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20. Half Moon Summer

By: Elaine Vickers

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two seventh graders discover it takes more than grit and a good pair of shoes to run 13.1 miles. Yo… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Vickers's Half Moon Summer book and Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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21. 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 Tommy Greenwald's Game Changer

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • sports

18 Best fiction books like Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald

Transform Your Habits

House Arrest

K.A. Holt

3.81

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Knockout

K.A. Holt

4.05

Ninth Ward

Jewell Parker Rhodes

3.37

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Slugfest

Gordon Korman

4.24

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15 best-selling childrens books like Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

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The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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

Nicholas Day

4.15

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The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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