11 Top family books like The Climbers by Keith Gray

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The Climbers

By: Keith Gray

3.58

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In this compelling story of teenage rivalry and friendship, award-winning author Keith Gray capture…

If you liked the family plot in The Climbers by Keith Gray , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio

"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more

Similar categories in Philip Pullman's The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6) book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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2. October, October

By: Katya Balen

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD. October and her dad live in the w… read more

Similar categories in Katya Balen's October, October book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
"It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole."

-Katya Balen, October, October

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3. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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4. Crossing the Line

By: Tia Fisher

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

'Do you feel safe?' A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. … read more

Similar categories in Tia Fisher's Crossing the Line book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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5. Choose Love

By: Nicola Davies

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. … read more

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6. Steady For This

By: Nathanael Lessore

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

MEET MC GROWLS, WANNABE RAPPER AND STAR OF THE SHOW IN THIS HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING TEEN DEBUT. … read more

Similar categories in Nathanael Lessore's Steady For This book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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7. 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

Similar categories in Joseph Coelho's The Boy Lost in the Maze book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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8. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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9. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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10. Run, Rebel

By: Manjeet Mann

4.30

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

When Amber runs, it's the only time she feels completely free - far away from her claustrophobic ho… read more

Similar categories in Manjeet Mann's Run, Rebel book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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11. The Eternal Return of Clara Hart

By: Louise Finch

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Spence and Anthony have been friends for years, but it’s only when he witnesses a classmate die in … read more

Similar categories in Louise Finch's The Eternal Return of Clara Hart book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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12. Nisha's War

By: Dan Smith

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Malaya, 1942. Nisha’s home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father’s a… read more

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13. Julia and the Shark

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.33

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfat… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's Julia and the Shark book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
"...which is still not a plot twist I saw coming."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

"Panic poured into the space where my certainty had been, hot and sharp."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

"I like how everything echoes with everything else if you listen hard enough"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

"Dad's listening became loud, you know how that happens when someone is really concentrating and you can feel the white noise of their attention."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark

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14. Different for Boys

By: Patrick Ness

3.82

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Ness's Different for Boys book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."

-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

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15. 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

Similar categories in Zillah Bethell's The Song Walker book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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16. A Kind of Spark

By: Elle McNicoll

4.52

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."

-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

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17. Needle

By: Patrice Lawrence

3.69

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more

Similar categories in Patrice Lawrence's Needle book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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18. The Light in Everything

By: Katya Balen

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more

Similar categories in Katya Balen's The Light in Everything book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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19. De tar allt ifrån mig

By: Linda Jones

3.48

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Hur mycket kan man offra för att få sin röst hörd? Frida är femton år och nybliven jägare. Hon d… read more

Similar categories in Linda Jones's De tar allt ifrån mig book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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20. The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros

4.16

Format: 156 pages, ebook

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more

Similar categories in Manon Steffan Ros's The Blue Book of Nebo book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."

-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo

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21. Äitiä etsimässä

By: Kaj Korkea-aho

4.25

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Ainutlaatuinen kertomus kahden miehen matkasta isiksi kuvaa vanhemmuuden kipeimpiä ja kauneimpia pi… read more

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22. Love Is for Losers

By: Wibke Brueggemann

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wry and hilarious queer romantic comedy, fifteen-year-old Phoebe realizes that falling in l… read more

Similar categories in Wibke Brueggemann's Love Is for Losers book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
"Boyfriends are temporary, best friends are for life."

-Wibke Brueggemann, Love Is for Losers

"You know that saying about herding cats? You don't fully understand its meaning until you've actually had to do it."

-Wibke Brueggemann, Love Is for Losers

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23. The Cats We Meet Along the Way

By: Nadia Mikail

3.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

A stunning debut young adult novel set in Malaysia, charting Aisha and her family on a roadtrip thr… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Mikail's The Cats We Meet Along the Way book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
"What happened when someone who made a home a home for you was not there to make it one any more?"

-Nadia Mikail, The Cats We Meet Along the Way

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24. Fake

By: Ele Fountain

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A thrillingly paced, timely novel about identity and our digital lives from the award-winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Ele Fountain's Fake book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • family
  • young adult
  • psychology
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25. The Starlight Watchmaker (The Watchmaker and the Duke, #1)

By: Lauren James

3.88

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Wealthy students from across the galaxy come to learn at the prestigious academy where Hugo toils a… read more

Similar categories in Lauren James's The Starlight Watchmaker (The Watchmaker and the Duke, #1) book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • adventure
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26. The Crossing

By: Manjeet Mann

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The trailblazing new novel from the Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of Run, Rebel. Praise for Run… read more

Similar categories in Manjeet Mann's The Crossing book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
  • family
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27. Good Boy

By: Mal Peet

3.73

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Sandie has been battling it since childhood: the hulking, snarling black dog of her nightmares. For… read more

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28. The Climbers

By: Keith Gray

3.58

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In this compelling story of teenage rivalry and friendship, award-winning author Keith Gray capture… read more

Similar categories in Keith Gray's The Climbers book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • family
  • young adult
  • psychology
  • adventure
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29. The Harder They Fall

By: Bali Rai

3.56

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Cal's family are proud to live in an 'analogue' world - no wifi in their house , just an ancient bl… read more

Similar categories in Bali Rai's The Harder They Fall book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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30. Wrath

By: Marcus Sedgwick

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

From the multi-award-winning author of Midwinterblood and The Ghosts of Heaven comes a suspenseful,… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Sedgwick's Wrath book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult
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31. Saving Celeste

By: Fombelle Timothee d

3.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

A dying girl. A sick planet. One last hope to survive. The world is run by !ndustry and the only… read more

Similar categories in Fombelle Timothee d's Saving Celeste book and Keith Gray's The Climbers

  • young adult

27 must-read young adult books like The Climbers by Keith Gray

The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Transform Your Habits

October, October

Katya Balen

4.38

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The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Crossing the Line

Tia Fisher

4.28

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13 Best middle grade books like Saving Celeste by Fombelle Timothee d

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Boy Lost in the Maze

Joseph Coelho

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

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