8 Top juvenile books like The Truth According to Blue by Eve Yohalem

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The Truth According to Blue

By: Eve Yohalem

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt middle grade adventure about one girl's search for sunken treasure, friendship, and her…

If you liked the juvenile plot in The Truth According to Blue by Eve Yohalem , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Framed! (T.O.A.S.T. Mystery #1)

By: James Ponti

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Kindle Edition

Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's Framed! (T.O.A.S.T. Mystery #1) book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery

2. Greetings from Witness Protection!

By: Jake Burt

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family … read more

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3. The Candymakers (The Candymakers, #1)

By: Wendy Mass

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection… read more

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4. Wish

By: Barbara O'Connor

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. Sh… read more

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5. 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 Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"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

6. The Blackthorn Key (The Blackthorn Key, #1)

By: Kevin Sands

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, l… read more

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7. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more

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8. Mark of the Thief (Mark of the Thief, #1)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.94

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the l… read more

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9. City Spies (City Spies #1)

By: James Ponti

4.31

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose h… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's City Spies (City Spies #1) book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
"Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong."

-James Ponti, City Spies (City Spies #1)

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10. Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy , a young adult… read more

Similar categories in Faith Erin Hicks's Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • fiction
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11. The Probability of Everything

By: Sarah Everett

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Everett's The Probability of Everything book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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12. 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 Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"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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13. Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

By: Fleur T. Bradley

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hunting ghosts and solving the case before checkout? All in a weekend's work. When JJ Jacobson c… read more

Similar categories in Fleur T. Bradley's Midnight at the Barclay Hotel book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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14. 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

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  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
"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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15. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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16. Lotería

By: Karla Arenas Valenti

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the hottest hour of the hottest day in Oaxaca City when Life and Death walk into town, ready … read more

Similar categories in Karla Arenas Valenti's Lotería book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"To believe, despite everything, to have hope- that was a choice."

-Karla Arenas Valenti, Lotería

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17. 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

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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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18. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

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19. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • mystery
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
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20. Honestly Elliott

By: Gillian McDunn

4.33

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McDunn's Honestly Elliott book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"

-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott

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21. The Firefly Summer

By: Morgan Matson

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Penderwicks meets The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street in a story about a young girl who gets to k… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's The Firefly Summer book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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22. All the Impossible Things

By: Lindsay Lackey

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade novel about a young girl navigating the foster care system in search of where she be… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Lackey's All the Impossible Things book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
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23. Dog Squad

By: Chris Grabenstein

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When trouble calls . . . it's DOG SQUAD to the rescue! Duke is not your average dog. Along with … read more

Similar categories in Chris Grabenstein's Dog Squad book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
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24. The Truth According to Blue

By: Eve Yohalem

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt middle grade adventure about one girl's search for sunken treasure, friendship, and her… read more

Similar categories in Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • womens
  • juvenile
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25. 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 Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"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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26. Ruby in the Sky

By: Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes and her mother move to Vermont, Ruby’s goal is to stay as sile… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo's Ruby in the Sky book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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27. Undercover Latina

By: Aya de León

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a f… read more

Similar categories in Aya de León's Undercover Latina book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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28. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • fiction
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29. The Last Super Chef

By: Chris Negron

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Selected to the July/August 2021 Indie Next List by the ABA! For as long as he can remember, Cur… read more

Similar categories in Chris Negron's The Last Super Chef book and Eve Yohalem's The Truth According to Blue

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction

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Alan Gratz

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4.31

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