28 Best middle grade books like The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus

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The Usual Suspects

By: Maurice Broaddus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from wri…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. Socks

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary charms readers with yet another lovable character--Sock… read more

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2. Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a middle grade road-trip story through Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Clean Getaway book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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4. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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5. 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 Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Timid

By: Jonathan Todd

3.57

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Todd's Timid book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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8. A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

By: Lisa Yee

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonn… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"They all perished. tragic deaths. sad parents. lawsuits.' Monica's words were met with stunned silence. ignoring the horrified looks on the student's faces, she shouted, 'Joking! We discovered that t…"

-Lisa Yee, A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

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9. Black Brother, Black Brother

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age stor… read more

Similar categories in Jewell Parker Rhodes's Black Brother, Black Brother book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"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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11. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

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12. Top Story (Front Desk, #5)

By: Kelly Yang

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Front Desk series continues! Mia Tang is at the top of her game! … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Top Story (Front Desk, #5) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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13. Before the Ever After

By: Jacqueline Woodson

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Woodson's novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Woodson's Before the Ever After book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Invisible

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more

Similar categories in Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Invisible book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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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 Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • juvenile
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16. The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

By: Lora Senf

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Tim… read more

Similar categories in Lora Senf's The Clackity (Blight Harbor) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Time made the missing different, but it didn't make it go away."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

"I'd gotten so close, so close to being the hero of my own story..."

-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)

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17. Tumble

By: Celia C. Pérez

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who co… read more

Similar categories in Celia C. Pérez's Tumble book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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18. Kaleidoscope

By: Brian Selznick

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the s… read more

Similar categories in Brian Selznick's Kaleidoscope book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"And then the wind turned into a hurricane inside my mind"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Nothing makes living people feel more powerless than Death"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Life isn't organized. Why should my library be any diffrent?"

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

"Maybe time is uncontrollable, and endless, and ... dangerous."

-Brian Selznick, Kaleidoscope

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19. Artie and the Wolf Moon

By: Olivia Stephens

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it d… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Stephens's Artie and the Wolf Moon book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"Now I'm here to be better than you at everything on a full-time bases."

-Olivia Stephens, Artie and the Wolf Moon

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20. Maizy Chen's Last Chance

By: Lisa Yee

4.29

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Yee's Maizy Chen's Last Chance book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."

-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance

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21. Wink

By: Rob Harrell

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A wrenching and hilarious story about embracing life's weirdness and surviving an unthinkable diagn… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harrell's Wink book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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22. Glitch

By: Laura Martin

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A whirlwind adventure about a pair of kids who must break all the rules of time travel. Regan Fi… read more

Similar categories in Laura Martin's Glitch book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Albert Einstein one said that everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it would spend its whole life believing it's stupid."

-Laura Martin, Glitch

Cover of The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) by Emma Steinkellner

23. The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

By: Emma Steinkellner

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Magic is harder than it looks. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she’s ab… read more

Similar categories in Emma Steinkellner's The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
"I was afraid once... And because I was afraid, my magic was weak and full of fear... If you do not trust in yourself, then you shall indeed fall. Trust in yourself, Moth. When you set your magic free…"

-Emma Steinkellner, The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

Cover of Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

24. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

By: Candace Fleming

4.15

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more

Similar categories in Candace Fleming's Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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25. The Legend of Auntie Po

By: Shing Yin Khor

4.06

Format: 290 pages, None

Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei rei… read more

Similar categories in Shing Yin Khor's The Legend of Auntie Po book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus

26. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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27. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's The Getaway book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds

28. It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway has concocted his most genius plan ever to avoid chores... es… read more

Similar categories in Justin A. Reynolds's It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"Dude, I haven't even picked the sleep outta my eyeball crevices yet. Like this can't be life."

-Justin A. Reynolds, It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

"Mom made me watch this boring documentary where this kid my age - twelve, if it matters to you - is hand-scrubbing clothes against a block of wood for hours, which, ugh, brutal. And you wanna know ho…"

-Justin A. Reynolds, It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

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29. Unhappy Camper

By: Lily LaMotte

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed creators of Measuring Up, author Lily LaMotte and illustrators Ann Xu and Sunmi,… read more

Similar categories in Lily LaMotte's Unhappy Camper book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1) by Michelle A. Barry

30. Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1)

By: Michelle A. Barry

4.26

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Failed climate change policy, an intergalactic conspiracy, and the magical, unlikely heroine who co… read more

Similar categories in Michelle A. Barry's Moongarden (Plotting the Stars, #1) book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
Cover of The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus

31. The Usual Suspects

By: Maurice Broaddus

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fans of Jason Reynolds and Sharon M. Draper will love this oh-so-honest middle grade novel from wri… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects book and Maurice Broaddus's The Usual Suspects

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • juvenile

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