12 must-read childrens books like Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg

Cover of Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg

Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth

By: Anna Fienberg

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweetly moving story about friendship and finding happiness, for readers who loved Wonder and Len…

If you liked the childrens plot in Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Borderland

By: None

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Borderland- a coming-of-age, YA eco-thriller about Indigenous land rights, with sci-fi elements. St… read more

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2. Friday Brown

By: Vikki Wakefield

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can't speak… read more

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3. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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4. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • australia
  • family
  • contemporary
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5. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • australia
  • family
  • contemporary
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6. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

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  • australia
  • contemporary
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7. Scar Town

By: Tristan Bancks

4.04

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
  • contemporary
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8. 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

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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9. Let’s Never Speak of This Again

By: Megan Williams

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more

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  • australia
  • family
  • contemporary
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10. Grace Notes

By: Karen Comer

4.16

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

  , This song has a grace note a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored… read more

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  • australia
  • family
  • contemporary
"Restrictions can't stop our music, can't stop us."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"together we weave a set of colours so beautiful that surely every listener's heart expands"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"The world has stopped still, yet we can feel our frenzied, uncertain energy spinning the Earth."

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

"Surely traditions have to evolve? Surely daughters can choose their own happiness? Surely our world can handle this new virus?"

-Karen Comer, Grace Notes

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11. Inkflower

By: Suzy Zail

4.32

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story. Lisa’s father has… read more

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12. Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt

3.40

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Selby hates homework. She would rather watch daytime television – anything to escape the tedium of … read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
  • mental health
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13. Silver Linings

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
"How can anyone eat now that Billy is gone? How can we even breathe?"

-Katrina Nannestad, Silver Linings

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14. A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette… read more

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"Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"What good are stories when the monsters are real?"

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

Cover of Andromache Between Worlds (Andromache, #1) by Gabriel Bergmoser

15. Andromache Between Worlds (Andromache, #1)

By: Gabriel Bergmoser

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A page-turning, action-packed adventure that is perfect for fans of the Jane Doe series. All fourt… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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16. Those Girls

By: Pamela Rushby

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of … read more

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17. Secret Sparrow

By: Jackie French

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 … read more

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  • middle grade
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18. The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart

By: Samera Kamaleddine

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize win… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
  • contemporary
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19. The Quiet and the Loud

By: Helena Fox

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from … read more

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  • contemporary
  • family
  • mental health
"And for a moment - here, now - we aren't the pregnant girl or the quiet girl. We aren't scared of death, or of memories oozing out of the dark. We are two girls, suspended. Timeless. Immense. Untouch…"

-Helena Fox, The Quiet and the Loud

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20. The Raven's Song

By: Zana Fraillon

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A wonderful children's novel by two stellar writers featuring Shelby and Phoenix, living 100 years … read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
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21. Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth

By: Anna Fienberg

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweetly moving story about friendship and finding happiness, for readers who loved Wonder and Len… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • family
  • contemporary
  • australia
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22. Huda Was Here

By: H. Hayek

3.74

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds o… read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
  • contemporary
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23. Scout and the Rescue Dogs

By: Dianne Wolfer

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A celebration of community, adventure, kindness and, above all, dogs! The summer holidays have fin… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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24. Being Jimmy Baxter

By: Fiona Lloyd

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A gently funny yet powerful coming-of-age middle grade novel about surviving the odds, unlikely fri… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
  • mental health
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25. The Unexpected Mess of It All

By: Gabrielle Tozer

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the YA Queen of Rom-com comes a funny and fraught 'enemies-to-will-they-won't-they' romance be… read more

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  • family
Cover of Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret by Amy Doak

26. Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret

By: Amy Doak

4.21

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Things have settled down in Cooinda and Eleanor Jones is getting used to her new normal – spending … read more

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27. Look Me in the Eye

By: Jane Godwin

3.97

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

running latedrop it off without meI type drop what off? I don't know what Mish is talking about.Whi… read more

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  • middle grade
  • family
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28. The Kindness Project

By: Deborah Abela

4.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • middle grade
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29. Leo and Ralph

By: Peter Carnavas

4.42

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning storyteller Peter Carnavas comes this stellar novel about space, starting over a… read more

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30. The Unlikely Heroes Club

By: Kate Foster

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A fun, frolicking adventure about five kids with a mystery to solve! Eleven-year-old Oli is spen… read more

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  • childrens
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31. We Run Tomorrow

By: Nat Amoore

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

You can run from your past, but the future is tomorrow . . . Tonight, we’re gonna kidnap our bes… read more

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  • childrens

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