20 best-selling middle grade books like All of Me by Chris Baron

Cover of All of Me by Chris Baron

All of Me

By: Chris Baron

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting …

If you liked the middle grade plot in All of Me by Chris Baron , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green

1. Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

By: Shari Green

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a For Sale sign … read more

Similar categories in Shari Green's Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin

2. The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.11

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King

3. Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: Amy Sarig King

4.21

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more

Similar categories in Amy Sarig King's Attack of the Black Rectangles book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."

-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

Cover of Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

4. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Something Like Home book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of Mascot by Charles Waters

5. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Everywhere Blue by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

6. Everywhere Blue

By: Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A brother's disappearance turns one family upside down, revealing painful secrets that threaten the… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's Everywhere Blue book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett

7. The Probability of Everything

By: Sarah Everett

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Everett's The Probability of Everything book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

8. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Martín's Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

Cover of Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca

9. Red, White, and Whole

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An #ownvoices novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when he… read more

Similar categories in Rajani LaRocca's Red, White, and Whole book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"What does the sky do when the moon is gone forever?"

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"We say goodbye to Amma. I am empty. I’ve been watching and saying goodbye for months."

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"« We say goodbye to Amma. I am empty. I’ve been watching and saying goodbye for months. »"

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

"Her face is as bright as a full moon, always gentle, always changing, but predictable. Like our moon, she only shows us one face. The strong one."

-Rajani LaRocca, Red, White, and Whole

Cover of Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling

10. Across the Desert

By: Dusti Bowling

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's Across the Desert book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

11. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

Cover of Unsettled by Reem Faruqi

12. Unsettled

By: Reem Faruqi

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, hopeful immigration story of Nurah and her family, who move from Karachi, Pakistan, to … read more

Similar categories in Reem Faruqi's Unsettled book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of School Trip (New Kid, #3) by Jerry Craft

13. School Trip (New Kid, #3)

By: Jerry Craft

4.20

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, L… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's School Trip (New Kid, #3) book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Operation Do-Over by Gordon Korman

14. Operation Do-Over

By: Gordon Korman

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables, Gordon Korman, comes a hilarious ne… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Operation Do-Over book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Louder Than Hunger by John Schu

15. Louder Than Hunger

By: John Schu

4.55

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more

Similar categories in John Schu's Louder Than Hunger book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

16. 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 Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"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

Cover of The Places We Sleep by Caroline Brooks DuBois

17. The Places We Sleep

By: Caroline Brooks DuBois

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It's early September 2001, and twelve-year-old Abbey is the new kid at school. Again. I worry ab… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Brooks DuBois's The Places We Sleep book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
Cover of An Appetite for Miracles by Laekan Zea Kemp

18. 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 Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"...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

Cover of All of Me by Chris Baron

19. All of Me

By: Chris Baron

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ari has body-image issues. After a move across the country, his parents work selling and promoting … read more

Similar categories in Chris Baron's All of Me book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Jupiter Rising by Gary D. Schmidt

20. Jupiter Rising

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.59

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Jupiter Rising book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles by Shari Green

21. Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles

By: Shari Green

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Bailey believes in miracles. She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her warring… read more

Similar categories in Shari Green's Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles book and Chris Baron's All of Me

  • poetry
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family

20 Top fiction books like All of Me by Chris Baron

Transform Your Habits

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

Shari Green

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Dresses

Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Amy Sarig King

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Something Like Home

Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

View all the books

15 best-selling childrens books like Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

Transform Your Habits

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.