7 best-selling middle grade books like Come Home Safe by Brian G. Buckmire

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Come Home Safe

By: Brian G. Buckmire

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Come Home Safe explores …

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1. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • middle grade
  • teen
  • audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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2. Remember Us

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply in… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Remember Us book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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3. Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay

By: Kelly McWilliams

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This sharp-witted, timely novel explores cancel culture, anger, and grief, and challenges the roman… read more

Similar categories in Kelly McWilliams's Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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4. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Chaos Theory book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. All the Fighting Parts

By: Hannah V. Sawyerr

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, a searing and defiant novel in verse about reclaiming agency a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah V. Sawyerr's All the Fighting Parts book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Saints of the Household

By: Ari Tison

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more

Similar categories in Ari Tison's Saints of the Household book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • social justice
  • race
  • teen
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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10. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • race
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Salt the Water

By: Candice Iloh

3.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging auth… read more

Similar categories in Candice Iloh's Salt the Water book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Aniana del Mar Jumps In

By: Jasminne Mendez

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel-in-verse by about a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with Juvenile A… read more

Similar categories in Jasminne Mendez's Aniana del Mar Jumps In book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Gone Wolf

By: Amber McBride

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this… read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's Gone Wolf book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom

By: Shannon C.F. Rogers

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Packed with voice, this is a powerful coming-of-age YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tri… read more

Similar categories in Shannon C.F. Rogers's I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. From Here

By: Luma Mufleh

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to recon… read more

Similar categories in Luma Mufleh's From Here book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • audiobook
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16. Harvest House

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thril… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Harvest House book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"In the gutter atop the empty, boarded-up building on my side of the road, Mourning Doves sense my dread and shudder in a cozy nest tucked in the gutter. Their kin have flown to warmer, brighter skies…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Harvest House

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17. An Appetite for Miracles

By: Laekan Zea Kemp

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp’s heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must co… read more

Similar categories in Laekan Zea Kemp's An Appetite for Miracles book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"...Faith doesn't work without common sense."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Dear God. I know our relationship is not supposed to be transactional. But, You are the one who invented an eye for an eye, so, maybe I can entice you with a good deal."

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

"Because there are people in our lives; rare unexpected people who don't just walk beside us through life; they witness our lives too. They hold our memories in their DNA. So that when one body forget…"

-Laekan Zea Kemp, An Appetite for Miracles

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18. Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

By: Monica Edinger

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their per… read more

Similar categories in Monica Edinger's Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • african american
  • middle grade
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19. Come Home Safe

By: Brian G. Buckmire

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Come Home Safe explores … read more

Similar categories in Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • race
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • social justice
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african american
  • audiobook
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20. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. The Minus-One Club

By: Kekla Magoon

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down , Light It Up , and… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's The Minus-One Club book and Brian G. Buckmire's Come Home Safe

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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Jacqueline Woodson

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Jas Hammonds

4.30

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