12 must-read middle grade books like Your Turn, Adrian by Helena Öberg

Your Turn, Adrian

By: Helena Öberg

3.50

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Almost every day, Adrian goes to school with knots in his stomach. He feels different from the othe…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Your Turn, Adrian by Helena Öberg , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

By: Mac Barnett , Jon Klassen

4.17

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and J… read more

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childrens
picture books
animals
dogs
fiction

2. A Kiss for Little Bear (An I Can Read Book) by Minarik, Else Holmelund [1984]

By: Else Holmelund Minarik , Maurice Sendak

3.10

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Little Bear's thank-you kiss from grandmother gets passed on to him by many animals and greatly aid… read more

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animals
picture books
childrens
fiction

3. Ghost (Track, #1)

By: Jason Reynolds

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Running. That's all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track te… read more

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realistic fiction
middle grade
fiction

4. しまなみ誰そ彼 2 (Shimanami tasogare, #2)

By: Yuhki Kamatani , None

4.36

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

僕が女装する理由なんて僕にもわからない。自らがゲイであることを告白したたすくと、彼の思いを受けとめた「談話室」に集う人々―― そのメンバーの一人の美空秋治は、「談話室」の中でだけ… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

5. The Witch Boy

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more

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6. Decelerate Blue

By: Mike Cavallaro , Adam Rapp

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

The future waits for no one. In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the popula… read more

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7. Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Vol. 1

By: Yuhki Kamatani

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

A beautiful tale of coming-out and coming-of-age. Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the ne… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

8. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

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disability
graphic novels
comics
fiction

9. Aquicorn Cove

By: Kay O'Neill

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a storm, the … read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

10. Wash Day Diaries

By: Jamila Rowser

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

11. Cat + Gamer, Volume 1

By: Wataru Nadatani

4.18

Format: 200 pages, None

Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life … read more

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graphic novels
comics
animals
fiction

12. Literatura infantil

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.25

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more

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fiction

"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."
-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."
-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"
-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"
-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

13. Doughnuts and Doom

By: Balazs Lorinczi

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Being a teenage witch—or rock star—is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends…o… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

14. The Sprite and the Gardener

By: Rii Abrego

4.11

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But w… read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

"Oh, I wonder... I was trying to fix the whole thing at once... But maybe it needs to be done one step at a time? I can do this... I can do this!!"
-Rii Abrego, The Sprite and the Gardener

15. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."
-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"
-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"
-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"
-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

16. Pestblommor

By: Mats Strandberg

3.80

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Jag ska berätta hur det var den där hösten. Jag tänker börja med den största hemligheten av alla… read more

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middle grade
childrens

17. Sorceline (#1-3)

By: Sylvia Douyé

3.65

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Island of Vorn, where mythical creatures roam free and only the brightest students a… read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

18. The Night Raven (The Moonwind Mysteries #1)

By: Johan Rundberg

4.13

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Mika is not your average orphan—and she’s about to prove it.It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of St… read more

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middle grade
childrens
fiction

19. Bienvenue à Pandorient (La Boîte à musique, #1)

By: Carbone

3.88

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Pour son huitième anniversaire, Nola, petite fille espiègle, reçoit de la part de son père Martin l… read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

20. Chef's Kiss

By: Jarrett Melendez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

English graduate Ben Cook is on the job hunt looking for something... anything... related to his pa… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

21. Cat + Gamer, Volume 2

By: Wataru Nadatani

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

THE LIVES OF A HARDCORE GAMER AND HER CAT! A quiet office worker embraces her new role as a cat … read more

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graphic novels
comics
animals
fiction

22. Riot Baby

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.72

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered … read more

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fiction

"When you have a purpose that doesn't involve hurting someone else, it changes the way you walk."
-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
"Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace." "When there isn't a curfe…"
-Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby

23. Belle of the Ball

By: Mari Costa

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young adult graphic novel about high school wallflower Belle Hawkins, who ends up in a love trian… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

24. The Man Without Talent

By: Yoshiharu Tsuge

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A Japanese manga legend’s autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first fu… read more

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graphic novels
comics
fiction

25. La skogen leve!

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.39

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

Klima nå - lekser senere! De voksne vil gjøre om skogen utenfor skolen til parkeringsplass, og B… read more

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graphic novels
comics
middle grade
childrens

26. A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Tavia is already at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society… read more

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fiction

27. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

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graphic novels
comics
middle grade
fiction

28. No One Returns from the Enchanted Forest

By: Robin Robinson

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this fantasy adventure graphic novel, a shy goblin must play the role of hero. They say no on… read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

29. Supers (Book One): A Little Star Past Cassiopeia

By: Frédéric Maupomé

3.82

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

ACBD Award Winner! Real life meets super-powered action when three refugee siblings with a secret s… read more

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childrens
graphic novels
middle grade
comics
fiction

30. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27