5 Best middle grade books like Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz

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Tough-Luck Karen

By: Johanna Hurwitz

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This fourth novel about the popular Sossi family focuses on 13-year-old Karen and the bad luck she …

If you liked the middle grade plot in Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse

1. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

By: Karen Hesse

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Hardcover

Thursday, February 28, 1861 P. Cloudy. Wind N.W. Fresh Mr.Lincoln has arrived at last in Washington… read more

Similar categories in Karen Hesse's A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 book and Johanna Hurwitz's Tough-Luck Karen

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 by Joyce Hansen

2. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

By: Joyce Hansen

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2) by Beverly Cleary

3. Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)

By: Beverly Cleary

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

This is the second title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona doesn't think she… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2) book and Johanna Hurwitz's Tough-Luck Karen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

4. Jessica's Big Mistake (Sweet Valley Kids, #7)

By: Francine Pascal

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elizabeth's favorite author is coming to Sweet Valley Elementary School, and the twins each come up… read more

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5. Bad Hare Day (Goosebumps, #41)

By: R.L. Stine

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They're baa-ack! Make way for the bestselling children's series of all time! With a fresh new look,… read more

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6. 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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7. The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777

By: Kristiana Gregory

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart records the despair and hope of the difficult winter between 1… read more

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8. Interior Chinatown

By: Charles Yu

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more

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  • fiction
"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

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9. Island of the Blue Dolphins

By: Scott O'Dell

3.87

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, … read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

"Everyone in our tribe had two names, the real one which was secret and was seldom used, and one which was common, for if people use your secret name it becomes worn out and loses its magic."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

"Below me Rontu was running along the cliffs barking at the screaming gulls. Pelicans were chattering as they finished the blue water. But suddenly I thought of Tutok, and the island seemed very quiet."

-Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

Cover of Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz

10. Tough-Luck Karen

By: Johanna Hurwitz

3.67

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This fourth novel about the popular Sossi family focuses on 13-year-old Karen and the bad luck she … read more

Similar categories in Johanna Hurwitz's Tough-Luck Karen book and Johanna Hurwitz's Tough-Luck Karen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

6 best-selling fiction books like Tough-Luck Karen by Johanna Hurwitz

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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

Karen Hesse

0.00

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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865

Joyce Hansen

4.88

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Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)

Beverly Cleary

5.00

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Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

3.97

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Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger (Wayside School, #3)

Louis Sachar

4.21

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)

Judy Blume

4.11

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Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean, #1)

Annie Barrows , Sophie Blackall

3.96

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)

Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.15

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