6 Best middle grade books like Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler

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Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

By: George Butler

4.42

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated documentary artist, twelve portraits from the front lines of migration form an in…

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1. Miss Hazeltine's Home for Shy and Fearful Cats

By: Birgitta Sif , Alicia Potter

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A tale with many tails, perfect for cat lovers everywhere! Miss Hazeltine is opening a very special… read more

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  • picture books

2. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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3. What Happened

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.50

Format: 191 pages,

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I w… read more

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4. Arsenic for Tea (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #2)

By: Robin Stevens

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy's home, Fallingford, for the holidays… read more

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5. Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)

By: Amy Timberlake

4.06

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

No one wants a skunk.They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock R… read more

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  • middle grade
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6. The Boy Lost in the Maze

By: Joseph Coelho

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In … read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
  • contemporary
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7. If I Was a Horse

By: Sophie Blackall

3.79

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her funniest book yet, two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall captures the astonishing spec… read more

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  • picture books
  • family
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8. The Secret to Superhuman Strength

By: Alison Bechdel

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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9. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • adult
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10. Milo Imagines the World

By: Matt de la Peña

4.49

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around … read more

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  • art
  • picture books
  • family
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11. Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird (Lightfall, #2)

By: Tim Probert

4.40

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of the Lightfall series, Bea and Cad continue their quest to stop Kest, t… read more

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  • middle grade
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12. Farmhouse

By: Sophie Blackall

4.53

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like… read more

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  • art
  • picture books
  • family
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13. I Talk Like a River

By: Jordan Scott

4.48

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Um retrato sensível do isolamento e do estigma sentido por uma criança com dificuldades de fala. … read more

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  • picture books
  • family
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14. ゆびさきと恋々 5 [Yubisaki to Renren 5]

By: Suu Morishita

4.46

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

ーーーこの非日常みたいな事が少しずつ日常へ変わっていったりするのかな。 女子大生の雪は、聴覚障がいがあって耳が聴こえない自分にも動じることなく自然に接してくる大学の先輩・逸臣に惹かれ、好きになる。… read more

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  • contemporary
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15. ゆびさきと恋々 6 [Yubisaki to Renren 6]

By: Suu Morishita

4.52

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

ーーーもしかしたら今ならなんでも答えてくれるの? 女子大生の雪は、聴覚障がいがあって耳が聴こえない自分にも動じることなく自然に接してくる大学の先輩・逸臣に惹かれ、好きになる。この恋にしっかり向き合… read more

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  • contemporary
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16. White Bird

By: R.J. Palacio

4.50

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

In R. J. Palacio's collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, reader… read more

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  • middle grade
  • war
"Solo se detiene la maldad cuando por fin las personas se unen para acabar con ella."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

"We are not defined by our mistakes, but by what we do after we've learned from them."

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

"You see, Julian, it always takes courage to be kind. But in those days, when such kindness could cost you everything - your freedom, your life - Kindness becomes a miracle. It becomes that light in t…"

-R.J. Palacio, White Bird

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17. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

By: Margaret Atwood

4.07

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 book and George Butler's Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

  • nonfiction
"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

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18. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Fletcher's And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy book and George Butler's Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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19. Wonder Walkers

By: Micha Archer

4.19

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Micha Archer's detailed collages give readers an outlook on the splendors of nature. When two cu… read more

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  • art
  • picture books
"Is rain the day's tears? Is the moon the world's night light? I wonder. Me too."

-Micha Archer, Wonder Walkers

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20. The Song Walker

By: Zillah Bethell

4.16

Format: None pages, None

"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more

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  • middle grade
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21. The Wanderer

By: Peter van den Ende

4.29

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Without a word, van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs … read more

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  • art
  • picture books
Cover of Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin

22. Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions

By: Temple Grandin

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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23. The Day War Came

By: Nicola Davies

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately ho… read more

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  • picture books
  • war
  • family
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24. Here Goes Nothing: A Novel

By: Eamon McGrath

2.44

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Named a Fall 2020 Best Indie Read by the Globe and Mail From Eamon McGrath, award-winning musician … read more

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  • contemporary
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25. The Power of One: Every Act of Kindness Counts

By: Trudy Ludwig

4.17

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

One small act of kindness can change the world. From esteemed bullying expert and author of The Inv… read more

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  • picture books
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26. Vern, Custodian of the Universe

By: Tyrell Waiters

3.67

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A thought-provoking and hilarious romp through time and space from debut creator, Tyrell Waiters th… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler

27. Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

By: George Butler

4.42

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated documentary artist, twelve portraits from the front lines of migration form an in… read more

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  • art
  • teen
  • middle grade
  • war
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • social issues
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28. It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On

By: Malaika Jabali

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s … read more

Similar categories in Malaika Jabali's It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On book and George Butler's Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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29. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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  • adult
  • contemporary
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30. Shu Lin's Grandpa

By: Matt Goodfellow

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Art and family transcend differences in language and culture in this sensitively told, exquisitely … read more

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  • art
  • picture books
  • family
Cover of Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? by Pierre Novellie

31. Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

By: Pierre Novellie

4.56

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Often when people react to new information about autism they end up accidentally correctly pointing out evidence of autism as opposed to evidence of its absence. They end up like someone throwing up …"

-Pierre Novellie, Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

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