5 Best disability books like Farther Than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey

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Farther Than the Moon

By: Lindsay Lackey

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Lindsay Lackey comes Farther Than the Moon, a heartfelt story about a boy…

If you liked the disability plot in Farther Than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. 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 Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"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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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 Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • disability
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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6. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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7. Saving Sunshine

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.06

Format: 224 pages, ebook

It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. … read more

Similar categories in Saadia Faruqi's Saving Sunshine book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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8. Lasagna Means I Love You

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Library Binding

What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's Lasagna Means I Love You book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
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9. Dust

By: Dusti Bowling

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A girl who struggles to breathe befriends a boy who seems shrouded in dust. After Avalyn nearly die… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's Dust book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • disability
  • juvenile
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10. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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12. No Matter the Distance

By: Cindy Baldwin

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in th… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Baldwin's No Matter the Distance book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
  • audiobook
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13. Enemies in the Orchard

By: Dana VanderLugt

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on Amer… read more

Similar categories in Dana VanderLugt's Enemies in the Orchard book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I may be blemished but I am not rotten to the core."

-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

"If I didn’t think too hard or ask too many questions, it was easy. p. 63"

-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

"Like the day I was captured, I want to raise my arms, show this woman and this girl my empty hands. p. 49"

-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

"Avoiding the truth, avoiding the responsibility that comes with admitting the truth, can seem a lot easier than being brave."

-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard

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14. You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Oh's You Are Here: Connecting Flights book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"

-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights

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15. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more

Similar categories in Sally J. Pla's The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
  • audiobook
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16. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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17. 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 Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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18. Bea and the New Deal Horse

By: L.M. Elliott

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction This lyrical middle grade historical novel… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Elliott's Bea and the New Deal Horse book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1)

By: Elaine Dimopoulos

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This timeless early middle-grade adventure about friendship and community will charm animal-loving … read more

Similar categories in Elaine Dimopoulos's The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1) book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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20. Not an Easy Win

By: Chrystal D. Giles

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! Twelve-year old Lawrence is new to chess--can he find a way to get on the bo… read more

Similar categories in Chrystal D. Giles's Not an Easy Win book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of Farther Than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey

21. Farther Than the Moon

By: Lindsay Lackey

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Lindsay Lackey comes Farther Than the Moon, a heartfelt story about a boy… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon book and Lindsay Lackey's Farther Than the Moon

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • space
  • disability
  • juvenile

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Jarrett Lerner

4.40

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Katherine Marsh

4.50

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4.40

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Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

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