21 must-read middle grade books like The Crossroads (The Only Road #2) by Alexandra Diaz

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The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

By: Alexandra Diaz

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Jaime and Ángela discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United State…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Crossroads (The Only Road #2) by Alexandra Diaz , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Public Enemies (On The Run, #5)

By: Gordon Korman

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Falconer siblings come one step closer to freeing their parents from jail in this fifth install… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Public Enemies (On The Run, #5) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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2. Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry

4.00

Format: None pages,

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war.… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. La guarida de las lechuzas

By: Antonio Ramos Revillas

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

NADA DE LO QUE HACIA ANTES ME GUSTA: NI MIS AMIGOS, NI VER AL VAMPIRO, NI PLATICAR CON SOFIA. DESDE… read more

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4. The Fugitive Factor (On The Run, #2)

By: Gordon Korman

2.50

Format: 62 pages,

Aiden and Meg Falconer are now celebrities ... for all the wrong reasons. It's much harder to be on… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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5. Chasing The Falconers (On The Run, #1)

By: Gordon Korman

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Two kids break out of a juvenile detention center and become fugitives in order to clear their conv… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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6. Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, … read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
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7. Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

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8. Spy School (Spy School #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.06

Format: None pages,

Can a normal, average kid become a superstar secret agent? Maybe not, but it'll be fun to watch him… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Spy School (Spy School #1) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

9. Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild

By: Kristiana Gregory

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

Susanna Fairchild's family had planned to move to Oregon and begin a relatively quiet life there. B… read more

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10. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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11. Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

By: Alan Gratz

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Hardcover

Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Irela… read more

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12. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859

By: Patricia C. McKissack

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters … read more

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13. The Stowaway Solution (On The Run, #4)

By: Gordon Korman

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The thrills take to the seas in the latest breakneck-speed adventure from ace storyteller Gordon Ko… read more

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14. Now You See Them, Now You Don't (On The Run, #3)

By: Gordon Korman

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The thrills intensify in the next installment of Gordon Korman's adventure ON THE RUN. One man hold… read more

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15. Hunting the Hunter (On the Run, #6)

By: Gordon Korman

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Aiden and Meg Falconer find and confront the man who could free their parents in this thrilling con… read more

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16. The Old Gringo

By: Carlos Fuentes , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

One of Carlos Fuentes's greatest works, The Old Gringotells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the Americ… read more

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17. New Kid (New Kid, #1)

By: Jerry Craft

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit … read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's New Kid (New Kid, #1) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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18. Efrén Divided

By: Ernesto Cisneros

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pura Belpré Award! “We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel … read more

Similar categories in Ernesto Cisneros's Efrén Divided book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
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19. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. Freeman's Alone book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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20. When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.62

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • family
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."

-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

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21. 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 Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
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22. Nowhere Boy

By: Katherine Marsh

4.34

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brus… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's Nowhere Boy book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

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

23. 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 Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • 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

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24. Fighting Words

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's Fighting Words book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"Broken bones take a long time to heal. Why shouldn't brains?"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words

"Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words

"This is to remind me of the best day of my life." She looks down at me. For a wonder, she smiles back. "When was that?" she asks. "Tomorrow," I say."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words

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25. 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 Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"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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26. Class Act (New Kid, #2)

By: Jerry Craft

4.28

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

In this companion book to New Kid this time it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in a s… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's Class Act (New Kid, #2) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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27. Stargazing

By: Jen Wang

4.17

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both… read more

Similar categories in Jen Wang's Stargazing book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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28. The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

By: Helen Thorpe

4.26

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving… read more

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"If there was any part of the global crisis that the United States owned, it was the chaos that was unfolding in the Middle East. The United States had not played a direct role in the ethnic cleansing…"

-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside the building…"

-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside this buildin…"

-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

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29. Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

By: Kelly Yang

4.42

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Mia Tang thinks she’s going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Three Keys (Front Desk, #2) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
"The pain broke my heart into a thousand pieces."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

"the worry that if he didn’t take every single thing, a part of him would be lost forever."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

"But you can't give up on people. It's one of the three keys of friendship. You gotta listen, you gotta care, and most importantly, you gotta keep trying."

-Kelly Yang, Three Keys (Front Desk, #2)

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30. A Sky Full of Song

By: Susan Lynn Meyer

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

 North Dakota, 1905   After fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire, eleven-year-old Shoshana a… read more

Similar categories in Susan Lynn Meyer's A Sky Full of Song book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Crossroads (The Only Road #2) by Alexandra  Diaz

31. The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

By: Alexandra Diaz

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Jaime and Ángela discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United State… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2) book and Alexandra Diaz's The Crossroads (The Only Road #2)

  • cultural
  • childrens
  • teen
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family

19 Best fiction books like The Crossroads (The Only Road #2) by Alexandra Diaz

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Public Enemies (On The Run, #5)

Gordon Korman

3.33

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Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

4.00

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The Fugitive Factor (On The Run, #2)

Gordon Korman

2.50

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Chasing The Falconers (On The Run, #1)

Gordon Korman

2.50

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

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The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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

Nicholas Day

4.15

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The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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