16 must-read middle grade books like Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1) by Susan Muaddi Darraj

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Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Farah and her best friend, Allie Liu, are getting excited to turn in their applications to the Magn…

If you liked the middle grade plot in Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1) by Susan Muaddi Darraj , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel

By: Mariah Marsden , Brenna Thummler , Kendra Phipps , None

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves.Explore the violet vales and glorious green … read more

Similar categories in Mariah Marsden's Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

2. The Terrible Two (The Terrible Two, #1)

By: Mac Barnett , Jory John , Kevin Cornell

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing … read more

Similar categories in Mac Barnett's The Terrible Two (The Terrible Two, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

3. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more

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4. Big

By: Vashti Harrison

4.66

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more

Similar categories in Vashti Harrison's Big book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of New Kid (New Kid, #1) by Jerry Craft

5. New Kid (New Kid, #1)

By: Jerry Craft

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit … read more

Similar categories in Jerry Craft's New Kid (New Kid, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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 Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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7. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • contemporary
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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8. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

By: Noor Hindi

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more

Similar categories in Noor Hindi's Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."

-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

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9. Cryptid Club

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Do you hate social gatherings? Dodge cameras? Enjoy staying up just a little too late at night? You… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Andersen's Cryptid Club book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • fiction
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10. Rez Dogs

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Bruchac's Rez Dogs book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."

-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs

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11. Unfamiliar, Vol. 2 (Unfamiliar, #2)

By: Haley Newsome

4.09

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Based on the hit webcomic, Unfamiliar Volume 2  continues the exciting witchy adventures of Planche… read more

Similar categories in Haley Newsome's Unfamiliar, Vol. 2 (Unfamiliar, #2) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • fiction
Cover of Unfamiliar, Vol. 1 (Unfamiliar, #1) by Haley Newsome

12. Unfamiliar, Vol. 1 (Unfamiliar, #1)

By: Haley Newsome

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on the wildly popular webcomic from Tapas, Unfamiliar is an endearing and whimsical story ful… read more

Similar categories in Haley Newsome's Unfamiliar, Vol. 1 (Unfamiliar, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • fiction
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13. 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 Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • school
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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14. 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

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"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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15. From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

By: Janae Marks

4.29

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Zoe Washington isn’t sure what to write. What does a girl say to the father she’s never met, hadn’t… read more

Similar categories in Janae Marks's From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
"I’d already waited twelve years to speak to Marcus. How much longer would I have to wait for the truth?"

-Janae Marks, From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington, #1)

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16. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • contemporary
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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17. Five Bad Deeds

By: Caz Frear

3.39

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful… read more

Similar categories in Caz Frear's Five Bad Deeds book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi

18. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
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19. Ida in the Middle

By: Nora Lester Murad

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ida, a Palestinian-American girl, eats a magic olive that takes her to the life she might have had … read more

Similar categories in Nora Lester Murad's Ida in the Middle book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1) by Kelly Yang

20. Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1)

By: Kelly Yang

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” ( Booklist … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1) by Sophie Escabasse

21. Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

By: Sophie Escabasse

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

There's a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Escabasse's Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"The feelings you've experienced through her music are yours, pumpkin. It's okay to like her music and not like her, and it's okay to not like her music after meeting her. These are your feelings and …"

-Sophie Escabasse, Witches of Brooklyn (Witches of Brooklyn, #1)

Cover of Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1) by Molly Knox Ostertag

22. Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1)

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xan… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's Roll Call (Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Club, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

23. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine

By: Hannah Moushabeck

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them st… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Moushabeck's Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • family
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

24. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

Similar categories in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
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25. Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!: (A Graphic Novel)

By: Sophie Escabasse

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Effie returns in this spellbinding a middle-grade graphic novel about found family, friendship, an… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Escabasse's Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!: (A Graphic Novel) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Triple Sec by T.J.   Alexander

26. Triple Sec

By: T.J. Alexander

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Triple Sec book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine  Locke

27. This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us

By: Katherine Locke

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The first LGBTQIA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Locke's This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun (Zara's Rules, #1) by Hena Khan

28. Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun (Zara's Rules, #1)

By: Hena Khan

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of Amina’s Voice comes the first book in a humor-filled middle grade series… read more

Similar categories in Hena Khan's Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun (Zara's Rules, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
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29. Expedition Backyard

By: Rosemary Mosco

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Join two best friends—a mole and vole—on their everyday expeditions to find beautiful plants, meet … read more

Similar categories in Rosemary Mosco's Expedition Backyard book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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30. Youth Group

By: Jordan Morris

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Kay reluctantly agreed to join the youth group at Stone Mission Church in Orange County Califo… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Morris's Youth Group book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • fiction
Cover of Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1) by Susan Muaddi Darraj

31. Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Farah and her best friend, Allie Liu, are getting excited to turn in their applications to the Magn… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1) book and Susan Muaddi Darraj's Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1)

  • audiobook
  • islam
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile

23 best-selling fiction books like Farah Rocks Fifth Grade (Farah Rocks, #1) by Susan Muaddi Darraj

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Mariah Marsden , Brenna Thummler , Kendra Phipps , None

4.11

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Vashti Harrison

4.66

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New Kid (New Kid, #1)

Jerry Craft

4.16

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Johnnie Christmas

4.28

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Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

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Kay O'Neill

4.08

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Fern Haught

3.62

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Jason Pamment

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