9 best-selling juvenile books like Harvey Comes Home by Colleen Nelson

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Harvey Comes Home

By: Colleen Nelson

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dog’s world is a world of scents, of adventure. When a runaway West Highland Terrier named Harvey…

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Cover of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler

1. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

By: Kate Bowler

3.80

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more

Similar categories in Kate Bowler's Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."

-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

2. The Theory of Hummingbirds

By: Michelle Kadarusman

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

-Hummingbirds and angels don't need two good feet. They have wings.- That's what Alba's mother alwa… read more

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3. Odder

By: Katherine Applegate

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Odder book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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4. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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5. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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6. The One and Only Ruby (The One and Only #3)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.28

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildli… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ruby (The One and Only #3) book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1) by Kevin Sands

7. Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1)

By: Kevin Sands

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Five kids with unusual talents are brought together to commit an impossible crime. A magic-infus… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sands's Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1) book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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8. This Place: 150 Years Retold

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more

Similar categories in Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's This Place: 150 Years Retold book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • canada
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9. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

Similar categories in Dionne Irving's The Islands: Stories book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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10. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

Similar categories in Mai Nguyen's Sunshine Nails book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • canada
Cover of Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1) by Chad Lucas

11. Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)

By: Chad Lucas

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving middle-grade debut for anyone who’s ever felt like they don’t belong. Brian has always … read more

Similar categories in Chad Lucas's Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1) book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"And mayonnaise is the whitest food."

-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)

"...you can love someone an awful lot and hurt them all the same"

-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)

"What? Oh.’ My cheeks went warm. ‘I did it without thinking..’ Mom smiled. ‘I know. You do that sometimes, until you get self-conscious and stop. But you don’t need to hide the things that make you ha…"

-Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Thanks a Lot, Universe, #1)

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12. Stealing Home

By: J. Torres

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him ano… read more

Similar categories in J. Torres's Stealing Home book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • middle grade
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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13. Music for Tigers

By: Michelle Kadarusman

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Shipped halfway around the world to spend the summer with her mom’s eccentric Australian relatives,… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Kadarusman's Music for Tigers book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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14. Forever Birchwood

By: Danielle Daniel

3.97

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The middle-grade debut of star picture-book author and illustrator Danielle Daniel Adventurous, tr… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Daniel's Forever Birchwood book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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15. Hidden on the High Wire

By: Kathy Kacer

4.10

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1941, Irene Lorch must perform the most perilous balancing act of her life… Ire… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Kacer's Hidden on the High Wire book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • middle grade
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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16. Apartment 713

By: Kevin Sylvester

4.26

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency, where even time moves… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sylvester's Apartment 713 book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Stone Child (The Misewa Saga, #3) by David Alexander Robertson

17. The Stone Child (The Misewa Saga, #3)

By: David Alexander Robertson

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indi… read more

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's The Stone Child (The Misewa Saga, #3) book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • canada
  • young adult
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18. Dragging Mason County

By: Curtis Campbell

3.53

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the t… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Campbell's Dragging Mason County book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • canada
Cover of Berani by Michelle Kadarusman

19. Berani

By: Michelle Kadarusman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An honest and stirring novel about the choices made by young environmental activists, and the balan… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Kadarusman's Berani book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Gnome Is Where Your Heart Is by Casey Lyall

20. Gnome Is Where Your Heart Is

By: Casey Lyall

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lemon Peabody is certain that aliens visited Grandpa Walt thirty years ago, but she's running out o… read more

Similar categories in Casey Lyall's Gnome Is Where Your Heart Is book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Harvey Comes Home by Colleen Nelson

21. Harvey Comes Home

By: Colleen Nelson

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dog’s world is a world of scents, of adventure. When a runaway West Highland Terrier named Harvey… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home book and Colleen Nelson's Harvey Comes Home

  • childrens
  • canada
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • young adult
  • dogs
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile

16 best-selling fiction books like Harvey Comes Home by Colleen Nelson

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Odder

Katherine Applegate

4.25

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A Rover's Story

Jasmine Warga

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Simon Sort of Says

Erin Bow

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The One and Only Ruby (The One and Only #3)

Katherine Applegate

4.28

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23 best-selling fiction books like Children of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow, #1) by Kevin Sands

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City Spies (City Spies #1)

James Ponti

4.31

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The Fort

Gordon Korman

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Invisible Spy (The Forgotten Five #2)

Lisa McMann

4.24

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The School Between Winter and Fairyland

Heather Fawcett

4.04

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