7 Best fiction books like A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) by Richard Peck

Cover of A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) by Richard Peck

A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

By: Richard Peck

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w…

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Cover of Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1) by Paul O. Zelinsky, Beverly Cleary

1. Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)

By: Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Beverly Cleary's timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecu… read more

Similar categories in Paul O. Zelinsky's Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1) book and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

2. The Midwife's Apprentice

By: Karen Cushman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England… read more

Similar categories in Karen Cushman's The Midwife's Apprentice book and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Keeping Score

By: Linda Sue Park

4.33

Format: 260 pages,

Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike … read more

Similar categories in Linda Sue Park's Keeping Score book and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Maniac Magee

By: Jerry Spinelli

4.00

Format: 222 pages,

Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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5. Out of the Dust

By: Karen Hesse

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) by Richard Peck

6. A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

By: Richard Peck

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year w… read more

Similar categories in Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2) book and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

  • childrens
  • historical
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Criss Cross

By: Lynne Rae Perkins

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in … read more

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Cover of Miracles on Maple Hill by Beth Krush, Virginia Sorensen

8. Miracles on Maple Hill

By: Beth Krush , Virginia Sorensen

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hil… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

9. Lincoln: A Photobiography

By: Russell Freedman

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking humor as for his height. Th… read more

Similar categories in Russell Freedman's Lincoln: A Photobiography book and Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongs…"

-Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography

10. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

By: Paul Fleischman , Eric Beddows

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noiseis a collection of… read more

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11. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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12. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

By: Nancy Willard , Alice Provensen , Martin Provensen

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by William Blake'sSongs of Innocenceand Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of… read more

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13. Missing May

By: Cynthia Rylant

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Sc… read more

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14. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

By: Robert Byrd , Laura Amy Schlitz

3.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Step back to medieval 1255 England and meet 22 villagers, illustrated in pen and ink, inspired by t… read more

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15. Moon Over Manifest

By: Clare Vanderpool

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award. The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my e… read more

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16. The Slave Dancer

By: Paula Fox

3.77

Format: 230 pages,

Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One after… read more

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17. The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)

By: Susan Patron

4.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-ol… read more

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18. The Whipping Boy

By: Peter Sís , Sid Fleischman

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A shout comes echoing up the stairway "Fetch the whipping boy!" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses … read more

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19. The View from Saturday

By: E.L. Konigsburg

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more

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20. Shadow Of A Bull

By: Maia Wojciechowska

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Manolo Olivar was the son of his father. Which may not seem like a necessary thing to say. But in M… read more

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Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)

Paul O. Zelinsky , Beverly Cleary

4.39

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Karen Cushman

5.00

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Jerry Spinelli

4.00

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Karen Hesse

3.71

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Lois Lowry

4.00

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Blood on the River: James Town 1607

Elisa Carbone

3.84

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Karen Cushman

5.00

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Sanjay Patel

4.16

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