18 Top middle grade books like Equal by Joyce Moyer Hostetter

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Equal

By: Joyce Moyer Hostetter

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Here is a riveting coming-of-age story about the importance of staying true to yourself and the ess…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Equal by Joyce Moyer Hostetter , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Kristy's Great Idea: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1)

By: Ann M. Martin , Raina Telgemeier

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Library Binding

In this new graphic novel edition of the very first Baby-Sitters Club book, Raina Telgemeier captur… read more

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  • middle grade
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2. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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  • middle grade
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

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3. Counting by 7s

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, … read more

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  • middle grade
"books=comfort"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

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4. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
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5. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her moth… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
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6. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaime… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
"I don't want to just survive"

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"This book made me love reading."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"Saying something stupid doesn't make you stupid," Susan said. " Luckily for all of us."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

"We'd escaped. Mam, Hitlers bombs, my one-room prison. Everything. Crazy or not, I was free."

-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

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7. The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

By: Sharon Robinson

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares abo… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
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8. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

By: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. I… read more

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9. The Witches

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real w… read more

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  • middle grade

10. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

By: Malala Yousafzai , Patricia McCormick

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Hardcover

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai … read more

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11. Serafina and the Splintered Heart (Serafina #3)

By: Robert Beatty

3.54

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

The storms are coming.... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she do… read more

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12. If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

By: Heather Lende

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air--and only w… read more

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13. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 year… read more

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14. Inside Out & Back Again

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more

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15. Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)

By: Gary Paulsen

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane … read more

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16. Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

By: Heather Lende

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Hea… read more

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17. Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)

By: Robert Beatty

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnar… read more

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18. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

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  • middle grade
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19. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

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"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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20. Allergic

By: Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to… read more

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  • middle grade
"Your heart’s expanded enough, Mom! Let’s go!"

-Megan Wagner Lloyd, Allergic

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21. Other Words for Home

By: Jasmine Warga

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more

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  • middle grade
"Americans are obsessed with murder"

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

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22. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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23. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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24. We Are Not Free

By: Traci Chee

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the… read more

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  • historical fiction
"...I'm not guilty of anything but being born with this face."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"We could do everything right, and they’d still think we were dangerous."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"Tyranny is locking us up. Tyranny is taking our freedom. Tyranny is right here. Tyranny is American."

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

"If someone always said, You have to do this for me before I do this for you, then nothing would ever get done"

-Traci Chee, We Are Not Free

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25. Dress Coded

By: Carrie Firestone

4.17

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more

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  • middle grade
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"

-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

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26. Root Magic

By: Eden Royce

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the hist… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
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27. The Elephant in the Room

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to … read more

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  • middle grade
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28. The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

By: Adrianna Cuevas

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his … read more

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  • middle grade
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29. The Tryout (The Tryout #1)

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

STAND TALL. BE LOUD. GAME FACE ON. When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and … read more

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  • middle grade
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30. Serafina and the Seven Stars (Serafina #4)

By: Robert Beatty

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Serafina and Braeden make an epic return in the hotly anticipated fourth installment of Robert Beat… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction
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31. Equal

By: Joyce Moyer Hostetter

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Here is a riveting coming-of-age story about the importance of staying true to yourself and the ess… read more

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  • middle grade
  • historical fiction

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Transform Your Habits

Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.49

Transform Your Habits

The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

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3.87

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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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Kate DiCamillo , Chris Sheban

3.00

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4.00

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