12 Best family books like We Belong by Cookie Hiponia

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We Belong

By: Cookie Hiponia

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel-in-verse, that weaves an immigrant story together with Philippine mythology. Stella and …

If you liked the family plot in We Belong by Cookie Hiponia , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

Similar categories in Shawnelle Gibbs's Ghost Roast book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. 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 Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Red, White, and Whole

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An #ownvoices novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when he… read more

Similar categories in Rajani LaRocca's Red, White, and Whole book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What does the sky do when the moon is gone forever?"

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"We say goodbye to Amma. I am empty. I’ve been watching and saying goodbye for months."

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"« We say goodbye to Amma. I am empty. I’ve been watching and saying goodbye for months. »"

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"Her face is as bright as a full moon, always gentle, always changing, but predictable. Like our moon, she only shows us one face. The strong one."

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

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4. Unsettled

By: Reem Faruqi

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, hopeful immigration story of Nurah and her family, who move from Karachi, Pakistan, to … read more

Similar categories in Reem Faruqi's Unsettled book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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5. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

By: Malaka Gharib

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • family
Cover of The Giver: Graphic Novel by P. Craig Russell

6. The Giver: Graphic Novel

By: P. Craig Russell

4.25

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Now in graphic novel format, Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic story of a young boy discov… read more

Similar categories in P. Craig Russell's The Giver: Graphic Novel book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • middle grade
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • middle grade
  • family
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8. The One Thing You'd Save

By: Linda Sue Park

3.94

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores… read more

Similar categories in Linda Sue Park's The One Thing You'd Save book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Ages ago my gran knitted a sweater for my dad. He wore it and wore it and wore it right out. Then my other gran, who lives with us, unraveled it and knitted a new sweater for me. So I'd save that swe…"

-Linda Sue Park, The One Thing You'd Save

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9. When Clouds Touch Us

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #… read more

Similar categories in Thanhhà Lại's When Clouds Touch Us book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Rain Rising

By: Courtne Comrie

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This dazzling debut middle grade novel in verse is a riveting journey toward self-acceptance for fa… read more

Similar categories in Courtne Comrie's Rain Rising book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

11. 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 Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"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

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12. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

By: Tae Keller

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A story about a girl who is alienated by her friends . . . for believing in aliens. Sometimes m… read more

Similar categories in Tae Keller's Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I had to make her understand that this mattered--what people thought had everything to do with who she was. Because how do we know who we are without knowing our place in the world?"

-Tae Keller, Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone

Cover of We Still Belong by Christine  Day

14. We Still Belong

By: Christine Day

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Christine Day's We Still Belong book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles, #1) by John David  Anderson

15. Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles, #1)

By: John David Anderson

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in … read more

Similar categories in John David Anderson's Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles, #1) book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of We Belong by Cookie Hiponia

16. We Belong

By: Cookie Hiponia

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel-in-verse, that weaves an immigrant story together with Philippine mythology. Stella and … read more

Similar categories in Cookie Hiponia's We Belong book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of My Fate According to the Butterfly by Gail D. Villanueva

17. My Fate According to the Butterfly

By: Gail D. Villanueva

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she’s doomed!… read more

Similar categories in Gail D. Villanueva's My Fate According to the Butterfly book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • family
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18. Say Her Name

By: Zetta Elliott

4.34

Format: 90 pages, None

For ages 12 and up. Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Fo… read more

Similar categories in Zetta Elliott's Say Her Name book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
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19. Chlorine Sky

By: Mahogany L. Browne

3.82

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best… read more

Similar categories in Mahogany L. Browne's Chlorine Sky book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Everybody wants to be a hero But most of us are just misunderstood villains"

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky

"A friend is someone seeing you And hearing you Without you having to say Everything Every time"

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky

"When you live where we live You say what it is & if you can't say what it is Or if it hurt too much, Or maybe it's too confusing You just say "whatever" That way you ain't no lie"

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky

"When I was younger I thought I had superpowers Thought if I sat real still and stared at a book No one would be able to see me I got so good at it I forgot that I’m the only one playing the game Sit …"

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chlorine Sky

Cover of 7FATES: CHAKHO, Vol. 1 by HYBE

20. 7FATES: CHAKHO, Vol. 1

By: HYBE

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When ferocious tiger creatures called the Beom invade the human world, wreaking havoc and killing i… read more

Similar categories in HYBE's 7FATES: CHAKHO, Vol. 1 book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

  • mythology
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mulan and the Palace of Secrets (Disney Princess) (Graphic Novel) by RH Disney

21. Mulan and the Palace of Secrets (Disney Princess) (Graphic Novel)

By: RH Disney

3.47

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Disney Princess Mulan must save the Emperor’s life once again from an invisible enemy in this origi… read more

Similar categories in RH Disney's Mulan and the Palace of Secrets (Disney Princess) (Graphic Novel) book and Cookie Hiponia's We Belong

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