9 best-selling juvenile books like Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell

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Hazard

By: Frances O'Roark Dowell

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his fathe…

If you liked the juvenile plot in Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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2. Swim Team

By: Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more

Similar categories in Johnnie Christmas's Swim Team book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • juvenile
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3. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

By: Neal Shusterman

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman presents a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through… read more

Similar categories in Neal Shusterman's Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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4. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • middle grade
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

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

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

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

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

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

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

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

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5. A Work in Progress

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starr… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett Lerner's A Work in Progress book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Santat's A First Time for Everything book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • middle grade
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7. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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8. Rez Dogs

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Bruchac's Rez Dogs book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."

-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs

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9. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • sports
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10. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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11. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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12. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's Frizzy book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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13. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

Similar categories in Allie Millington's Olivetti book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"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

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15. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1) by Kwame Alexander

16. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.32

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Alexander's The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1) book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."

-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)

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17. 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

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • middle grade
  • war
  • fiction
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18. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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19. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
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20. This Light Between Us

By: Andrew Fukuda

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals--a Japanese American boy and a French Jew… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Fukuda's This Light Between Us book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • fiction
  • war
  • young adult
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21. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • middle grade
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22. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

By: Sally J. Pla

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more

Similar categories in Sally J. Pla's The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

23. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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24. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

Similar categories in Claire Swinarski's What Happened to Rachel Riley? book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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25. The Road to After

By: Rebekah Lowell

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This poignant debut novel in verse is a portrait of healing, as a young girl rediscovers life and t… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Lowell's The Road to After book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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26. 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 Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • juvenile
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27. What About Will

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle … read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's What About Will book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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28. Thin Air

By: Kellie M. Parker

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of tee… read more

Similar categories in Kellie M. Parker's Thin Air book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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29. Worser

By: Jennifer Ziegler

3.93

Format: None pages, None

A bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turn… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ziegler's Worser book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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30. Troublemaker

By: John Cho

4.03

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestselller!An Indiebound bestseller!Troublemaker follows the events of t… read more

Similar categories in John Cho's Troublemaker book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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31. Hazard

By: Frances O'Roark Dowell

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his fathe… read more

Similar categories in Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard book and Frances O'Roark Dowell's Hazard

  • poetry
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • juvenile

28 Top fiction books like Hazard by Frances O'Roark Dowell

Transform Your Habits

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Amy Sarig King

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

Neal Shusterman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

A Work in Progress

Jarrett Lerner

4.40

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21 Top fiction books like This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda

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Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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If These Wings Could Fly

Kyrie McCauley

4.25

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What I Carry

Jennifer Longo

4.22

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The Silent Unseen

Amanda McCrina

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