8 Top juvenile books like Being Edie Is Hard Today by Ben Brashares

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Being Edie Is Hard Today

By: Ben Brashares

3.92

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This warm and tender story about being yourself--even when you're sad, anxious, or feeling lonely--…

If you liked the juvenile plot in Being Edie Is Hard Today by Ben Brashares , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Journey (Journey Trilogy #1)

By: Aaron Becker

4.37

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Follow a girl on an elaborate flight of fancy in a wondrously illustrated, wordless picture book ab… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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2. Don't Blink!

By: Tom Booth

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Think you can win a staring contest against an elephant? What about a gorilla, a cheetah, a fox, or… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Life by Cynthia Rylant, Brendan Wenzel

3. Life

By: Cynthia Rylant , Brendan Wenzel

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel explore the beauty and tenacity of life. Life begins small, then … read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Traitor's Game (The Traitor's Game #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

4. The Traitor's Game (The Traitor's Game #1)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.91

Format: 360 pages, ebook

Nothing is as it seems in the kingdom of Antora. Kestra Dallisor has spent three years in exile in … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Escargot by Sydney Hanson, Dashka Slater

5. Escargot

By: Sydney Hanson , Dashka Slater

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bonjour!Escargot is a beautiful French snail who wants only two things: 1. To be your favorite anim… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. Olivia the Spy

By: Ian Falconer

4.20

Format: 406 pages,

Everyone's favorite pig is about to have a birthday...but will her penchant for eavesdropping lead … read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction

7. If You Give a Moose a Muffin

By: Laura Joffe Numeroff , Felicia Bond

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

If a big hungry moose comes to visit, you might give him a muffin to make him feel at home. If you … read more

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8. 赤髪の白雪姫 1 [Akagami no Shirayukihime 1] (Snow White with the Red Hair, #1)

By: Sorata Akizuki

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Sheng maretsukiChi iLin Qin noYang naMei shiiFa noBai Xue . sonoZhen shiiFa Se woE Ming Gao iraziWa… read more

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9. The Queen's Handbag

By: Steve Antony

4.00

Format: 384 pages,

A naughty swan steals the Queen's handbag, so naturally, the Queen races after it. She follows it a… read more

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10. A Stone for Sascha

By: Aaron Becker

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

A girl grieves the loss of her dog in an achingly beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor-… read more

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11. Pinduli

By: Janell Cannon

3.71

Format: 224 pages,

Pinduli's mama has always told her that she's the most beautiful hyena ever. But Dog, Lion, and Zeb… read more

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12. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

By: William Joyce , Joe Bluhm

3.57

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Ever… read more

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13. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3) by Kay O'Neill

14. The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.50

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon se… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"Everything that happens is part of your wholeness."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song tha…"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

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15. Who Wet My Pants?

By: Bob Shea

3.71

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious tale of blame, compassion, and forgiveness, a very embarrassed bear is reminded t… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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16. Brotherhood (Star Wars)

By: Mike Chen

4.16

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bon… read more

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  • fiction
"I promise you, nothing would happen to you,"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"Mission parameters can always be changed—in politics, military missions, or life—and the truly wise know when to make those changes."

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"Anakin knelt down in front of R2-D2, quickly reciting memorized details about connecting to secure comm channels, something that he held on to as tightly as the hand of his wife. Because in some ways…"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

"The sun-dragon lives inside a star, guarding everything it loves and treasures. It guarded them through the fire and flame, always keeping them safe. It could persevere through anything, even life wi…"

-Mike Chen, Brotherhood (Star Wars)

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

17. 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

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  • childrens
"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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18. Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

4.47

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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19. 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

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  • childrens
  • fiction
  • mental health
"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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20. Bathe the Cat

By: Alice B. McGinty

4.36

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as … read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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21. Farmhouse

By: Sophie Blackall

4.53

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to peek through windows that shine like… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein

22. Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

By: Jacob Goldstein

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money i… read more

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23. I Am Every Good Thing

By: Derrick Barnes

4.61

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

I ama nonstop ball of energy.Powerful and full of light.I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A lea… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1) by Kalyn Josephson

24. Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1)

By: Kalyn Josephson

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One magical inn, two kids with supernatural powers, and an ancient Celtic creature trying to destro… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1) by A.J. Pearce

25. Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

By: A.J. Pearce

3.80

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

A charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about an adventurous young w… read more

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  • fiction
"Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key."

-A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1)

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26. A Home Again

By: Colleen Rowan Kosinski

4.25

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

After the last brick is laid, a family moves into a brand-new house. As the family grows, the house… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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27. Every Dreaming Creature

By: Brendan Wenzel

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for bedtime or at any time, here is a visually stunning exploration of animal senses throug… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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28. A Kite for Moon

By: Jane Yolen

4.14

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A Kite for Moon, written by New York Times bestselling author of How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Ja… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Tiger Days: A Book of Feelings by M.H. Clark

29. Tiger Days: A Book of Feelings

By: M.H. Clark

4.01

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

From tiger fierce to snail slow, there are lots of ways to feel and be. A walk through the menageri… read more

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  • childrens
  • picture books
  • animals
  • fiction
  • emotion
  • juvenile
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30. A Spider Named Itsy

By: Steve Light

3.55

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Why did Itsy Bitsy make his famous journey? With a dose of warmth and whimsy, Steve Light's remarka… read more

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  • animals
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Being Edie Is Hard Today by Ben Brashares

31. Being Edie Is Hard Today

By: Ben Brashares

3.92

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This warm and tender story about being yourself--even when you're sad, anxious, or feeling lonely--… read more

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  • childrens
  • school
  • picture books
  • animals
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • emotion
  • juvenile

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Transform Your Habits

Journey (Journey Trilogy #1)

Aaron Becker

4.37

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Don't Blink!

Tom Booth

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Life

Cynthia Rylant , Brendan Wenzel

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Traitor's Game (The Traitor's Game #1)

Jennifer A. Nielsen

3.91

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage

None , John McWhorter

4.38

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Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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