14 Top childrens books like Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

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Return to Sender

By: Julia Alvarez

3.78

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to …

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1. Say What You Will

By: Cammie McGovern

3.64

Format: 218 pages, ebook

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully writt… read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
"WHY DID YOU TELL PEOPLE MY ESSAY WASN’T TRUE?"

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO SCARED TO TAKE ANY RISKS DOESN'T MEAN THE REST OF US SHOULD BE."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

"Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this."

-Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will

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2. Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

By: Steve Sheinkin , None

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American. Pop Warner: indomitable coach… read more

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  • middle grade
"Harvard coach Bill Reid would later credit Teddy Roosevelt with saving football. But words in a rule book are one thing. Someone had to show the nation a new way to play the game. The Carlisle Indian…"

-Steve Sheinkin, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

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3. Summerlost

By: Ally Condie

3.86

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

It's the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar's father and younger br… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"I understood why Leo called the fountain Baby Niagara. Because once you see something big, you can't help seeing it in everything small."

-Ally Condie, Summerlost

"You're not my girlfriend. You're my person." I knew right away what he meant. I thought he was cute and he though ti was cute but was different than it was when people have crushes. With Leo I'd fall…"

-Ally Condie, Summerlost

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4. Ms. Bixby's Last Day

By: John David Anderson

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The good ones. The not-so-good ones. The bori… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"... stories are everywhere, just waiting to be found..."

-John David Anderson, Ms. Bixby's Last Day

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5. Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)

By: Rob Buyea

4.35

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new gi… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"I didn't want anyone to get hurt."

-Rob Buyea, Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)

"We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive."

-Rob Buyea, Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)

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6. Paper Things

By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose h… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
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7. Well, That Was Awkward

By: Rachel Vail

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Hardcover

Gracie has never felt like this before. One day, she suddenly can't breathe, can't walk, can't anyt… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Vail's Well, That Was Awkward book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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8. Bronx Masquerade

By: Nikki Grimes

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

Using the structure of a poetry slam, Nikki Grimes' award-winning novel is a powerful exploration o… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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9. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street:a richly illustrated compilation of true stori… read more

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10. The Thing About Luck

By: Cynthia Kadohata , Julia Kuo

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Summer knows that kouun means good luck" in Japanese, and this year her family has had none. Just w… read more

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

11. The Only Road

By: None

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

PURA BELPRE HONOR BOOK ALA NOTABLE BOOK "Powerful and timely." --Booklist(starred review) "An impor… read more

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  • cultural
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
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12. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

By: Francisco Jiménez

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picki… read more

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  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Liar & Spy

By: Rebecca Stead

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When seventh grader Georges (the Sis silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Saf… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

14. A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home

By: Henry Cole

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

Celeste is not your average mouse. She lives alone, quietly weaving baskets with creative flair und… read more

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15. Firegirl

By: Tony Abbott

5.00

Format: None pages,

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16. Marcelo in the Real World

By: Francisco X. Stork

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has… read more

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17. Surviving the Applewhites (Applewhites, #1)

By: Stephanie S. Tolan

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Will anyone take on Jake Semple? Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned down his old scho… read more

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18. Save Me a Seat

By: Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.… read more

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19. Flying Lessons & Other Stories

By: Matt de la Peña , Sherman Alexie , Soman Chainani , Walter Dean Myers , Grace Lin , Ellen Oh , Jacqueline Woodson , Kwame Alexander , Tim Federle , Tim Tingle , Meg Medina , Kelly J. Baptist

4.04

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

For the hardback, see ISBN13: 9781101934593. Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, fi… read more

Similar categories in Matt de la Peña's Flying Lessons & Other Stories book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • cultural
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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20. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
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21. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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22. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

By: Jason Reynolds

3.94

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a nove… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"Got it. Here's the thing. Kenzi here got a big heart. But that big heart happens to be in a small body. Now, I don't know about you, but I would hate for that heart to be broken because that body was…"

-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

"Difference: Then I think about Ms Broome's assignment. What could I be? What do I wish I could become to change the world? I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks…"

-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

"A school bus is many things. A school bus is a substitute for a limousine. More class. A school bus is a classroom with a substitute teacher. A school bus is the students' version of a teachers' loun…"

-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

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23. Letters from Cuba

By: Ruth Behar

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to … read more

Similar categories in Ruth Behar's Letters from Cuba book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes

24. Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring

By: Angela Cervantes

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A room locked for fifty years.A valuable peacock ring.A mysterious brother-sister duo.Paloma Marque… read more

Similar categories in Angela Cervantes's Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
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25. Running

By: Natalia Sylvester

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz’s father runs for president, Mari starts to see h… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Sylvester's Running book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • fiction
  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

26. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • fiction
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27. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

By: Héctor Tobar

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more

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28. What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America. When a naked, mentally ill white m… read more

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29. Ruptured

By: Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The sensitive, suspenseful story of a family coping with a life-changing tragedy, told in stunning … read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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30. Return to Sender

By: Julia Alvarez

3.78

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to … read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender book and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender

  • cultural
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • spanish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family

21 Best fiction books like Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez

Transform Your Habits

Say What You Will

Cammie McGovern

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Summerlost

Ally Condie

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Ms. Bixby's Last Day

John David Anderson

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)

Rob Buyea

4.35

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29 Top fiction books like The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

Transform Your Habits

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

Anne Hillerman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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