20 Top middle grade books like Karthik Delivers by Sheela Chari

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Karthik Delivers

By: Sheela Chari

3.93

Format: None pages, None

A middle-grade novel set during the financial crisis, following a boy who makes deliveries for his …

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Cover of How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby

1. How to Become a Planet

By: Nicole Melleby

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorit… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Melleby's How to Become a Planet book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. 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 Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Wildoak

By: C.C. Harrington

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Maggie’s stutter makes going to school hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class… read more

Similar categories in C.C. Harrington's Wildoak book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Miss Quinces

By: Kat Fajardo

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Rising star Kat Fajardo's debut middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who would rather do anythin… read more

Similar categories in Kat Fajardo's Miss Quinces book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
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5. Answers in the Pages

By: David Levithan

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bold, timely novel about speaking up and coming out as parents lobby to ban a beloved book from t… read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Answers in the Pages book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us."

-David Levithan, Answers in the Pages

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6. Tumble

By: Celia C. Pérez

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who co… read more

Similar categories in Celia C. Pérez's Tumble book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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7. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • historical
Cover of Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate  O'Shaughnessy

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 Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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9. Isla to Island

By: Alexis Castellanos

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to … read more

Similar categories in Alexis Castellanos's Isla to Island book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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10. Violets Are Blue

By: Barbara Dee

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed My Life in the Fish Tank and Maybe He Just Likes You comes a movin… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Dee's Violets Are Blue book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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11. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

By: Susan Hood

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hood's Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • historical
  • middle grade
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12. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Iveliz Explains It All book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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13. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lloyd's Hummingbird book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser

14. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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15. Falling Short

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Cisneros's Falling Short book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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16. Hide and Seeker

By: Daka Hermon

3.98

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a night… read more

Similar categories in Daka Hermon's Hide and Seeker book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Tryout (The Tryout #1)

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and … read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's The Tryout (The Tryout #1) book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
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18. The Golden Hour

By: Niki Smith

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that ge… read more

Similar categories in Niki Smith's The Golden Hour book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali

19. The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

By: Michael Leali

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt debut novel about a boy's attempt to find himself in the history he loves--perfect for … read more

Similar categories in Michael Leali's The Civil War of Amos Abernathy book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Just because a bunch of mostly white men hammered history into one shape, it doesn’t mean they got it right."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"Maybe, if we want things to change, we have to stop waiting. Maybe we just need to do something about it ourselves."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"As long as there are people on the planet, life will be unfair, but that doesn’t mean we have to put up with hatred or bigotry."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

"Most all my life, I have blindly accepted what was written in history books and taught in classes. I didn’t think to ask if there was more to the story."

-Michael Leali, The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

Cover of Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack

20. Black Bird, Blue Road

By: Sofiya Pasternack

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award fin… read more

Similar categories in Sofiya Pasternack's Black Bird, Blue Road book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Karthik Delivers by Sheela Chari

21. Karthik Delivers

By: Sheela Chari

3.93

Format: None pages, None

A middle-grade novel set during the financial crisis, following a boy who makes deliveries for his … read more

Similar categories in Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers book and Sheela Chari's Karthik Delivers

  • childrens
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

18 Best fiction books like Karthik Delivers by Sheela Chari

Transform Your Habits

How to Become a Planet

Nicole Melleby

4.25

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The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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Wildoak

C.C. Harrington

4.34

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Miss Quinces

Kat Fajardo

4.18

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18 Top fiction books like Lasagna Means I Love You by Kate O'Shaughnessy

Transform Your Habits

How to Become a Planet

Nicole Melleby

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Simon Sort of Says

Erin Bow

4.31

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Lasagna Means I Love You

Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.40

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