5 must-read middle grade books like Hotel Oscar Mike Echo by Linda MacKillop

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Hotel Oscar Mike Echo

By: Linda MacKillop

4.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

2024 Christianity Today Book Award Finalist — Young Adults Home isn’t always what we dream it …

If you liked the middle grade plot in Hotel Oscar Mike Echo by Linda MacKillop , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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2. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

3. Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future

By: Henry Cloud

4.06

Format: 32 pages,

This book focuses on four developmental tasks -- bonding to others, separating from others, integra… read more

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4. A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)

By: Francine Rivers , None

4.65

Format: None pages,

The first book in the bestselling Mark of the Lion series, A Voice in the Windbrings readers back t… read more

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5. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fiction
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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6. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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7. You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

By: Allie Beth Stuckey

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the sharpest Christian voices of her generation and host of the podcast Relatable comes… read more

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"Our truth is usually Satan's lie."

-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

"Because the self can't be both the problem and the solution."

-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

"The self isn't enough---period. The answer to the purposelessness and hollowness we feel is found not in us but outside of us. The solutions to our problems and pain aren't found in self-love, but in…"

-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

"This is an argument I made in a podcast episode titled "Three Myths Christian Women Believe". The first myth was that you are enough. My counter was this: you're not enough, you'll never be enough, a…"

-Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (and That's Ok): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love

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8. Chasing Shadows

By: Lynn Austin

4.54

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

A about three women whose lives are instantly changed when the Nazis invade the neutral Netherlands… read more

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  • fiction
"When we were in hiding, we were never hidden from God."

-Lynn Austin, Chasing Shadows

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9. 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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10. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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11. Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

By: Pepper Basham

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

“Dear Izzy—I feel certain there’s a book-loving man living relatively nearby waiting to speak booki… read more

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  • fiction
"The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again."

-Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1)

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12. She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up

By: Sheila Wray Gregoire

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

This research-based, biblically informed book helps moms reject harmful teachings from the church a… read more

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13. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

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  • fiction
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14. On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living

By: Alan Noble

4.33

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

We aren't always honest about how difficult normal human life is. For the majority of people, sorro… read more

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15. Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

By: Pepper Basham

4.21

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into he… read more

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  • fiction
"But don’t let all those big dreams in your head stop you from seeing that sometimes the best adventures can still be in the simplest things. Like home and family."

-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

"He’d never met anyone who wore sunshine quite like Penelope Edgewood. At first, it had been too much. Too overpowering and seemingly inauthentic, but then, over the weeks, her vibrancy melded into th…"

-Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope (Skymar, #2)

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16. Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other

By: Bethany Turner

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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17. Wishes

By: Mượn Thị Văn

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

A reflection on immigration, family, and home.Wishes tells the honest story about one Vietnamese fa… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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18. When the Summer Was Ours

By: Roxanne Veletzos

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Hungary, 1943: As war encroaches on the country’s borders, willful young Eva César arrives in the i… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Like Me: A Story About Disability and Discovering God’s Image in Every Person

By: Laura Wifler

4.63

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This children’s picture book follows a sibling of a child with a disability as they go through thei… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer: A True Story of How You Can Talk With God (Tales That Tell the Truth) by Laura Wifler

20. Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer: A True Story of How You Can Talk With God (Tales That Tell the Truth)

By: Laura Wifler

4.76

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When children have something on their minds, they tend to run to their parents and caregivers. Woul… read more

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  • childrens
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21. The Carver and the Queen

By: Emma C. Fox

4.53

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A retelling of a Siberian folktale—filled with lore, longing, and mythical romance!In the age of Im… read more

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  • middle grade
  • fiction
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22. Leaning on Air

By: Cheryl Grey Bostrom

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

They last spoke as teens . . . But on a country road twelve years later, a surprise encounter reun… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Hotel Oscar Mike Echo

By: Linda MacKillop

4.80

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

2024 Christianity Today Book Award Finalist — Young Adults Home isn’t always what we dream it … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Big Feelings Days: A Book about Hard Things, Heavy Emotions, and Jesus’ Love by Aubrey  Sampson

24. Big Feelings Days: A Book about Hard Things, Heavy Emotions, and Jesus’ Love

By: Aubrey Sampson

4.63

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Help little kids with big emotions know God that loves them and is right next to them, no matter wh… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of God Counts: Numbers in His Word and His World by Irene Sun

25. God Counts: Numbers in His Word and His World

By: Irene Sun

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging, illustrated children’s book by Irene Sun, young readers learn how numbers declare… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of Two Lights of Hope (Cold War Trilogy #2) by Taryn R. Hutchison

26. Two Lights of Hope (Cold War Trilogy #2)

By: Taryn R. Hutchison

4.87

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Life in Communist Romania in 1988 becomes increasingly dangerous for sixteen-year-old Adriana Nicu … read more

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  • fiction
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27. Chasing God's Glory

By: Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore-Young

4.89

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A unique and delightful children’s book about how God’s glory can be found all around us every day,… read more

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  • childrens
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28. The Songs of a Warrior: Saul and David: A Retelling

By: Katy Morgan

4.14

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

This dramatic retelling of the accounts of the first two kings of Israel follows the intertwining s… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life by Karen Stiller

29. Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life

By: Karen Stiller

4.68

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Do You Recognize Holiness in Your Own Life and in the Here and Now?These days, brokenness feels mor… read more

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30. Three Colors of Courage

By: Taryn R. Hutchison

4.97

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The grip of Communism tightens around Romania in the fall of 1989. As neighboring Eastern European … read more

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