12 must-read middle grade books like Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

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Shakespeare's Secret

By: Elise Broach

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare-can Hero uncover the connections? …

"There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

If you liked the middle grade plot in Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

1. Penny from Heaven

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Penny from Heaven book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the be…"

-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven

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2. Half a Chance

By: Cynthia Lord

3.99

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A moving new middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules. When Lucy's family moves… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Lord's Half a Chance book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor

3. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

By: Leslie Connor

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Junior Library Guild Selection * Kids’ Indie Next List Pick From Leslie Connor, award-winning au… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Connor's All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
Cover of Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

4. Shakespeare's Secret

By: Elise Broach

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare-can Hero uncover the connections? … read more

Similar categories in Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
"There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

"My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you."

-Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

Cover of Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) by Jennifer L. Holm

5. Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when y… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1) book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

6. Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.13

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next t… read more

Similar categories in Steve Sheinkin's Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"She was too well-trained to panic."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"When do I start?" is the most refreshing thing I've heard in this whole war."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots."

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

"Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and disc…"

-Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Cover of Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

7. Belle Prater's Boy

By: Ruth White

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodro… read more

Similar categories in Ruth White's Belle Prater's Boy book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • juvenile
Cover of Which None Can Shut by Reema Goode

8. Which None Can Shut

By: Reema Goode

5.00

Format: 384 pages,

"See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it." -Revelation 3:8... Imagine a pla… read more

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Cover of Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

9. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial p… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Bruchac's Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

10. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

By: Mark Miodownik

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more

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11. Echo

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

3.95

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himsel… read more

Similar categories in Pam Muñoz Ryan's Echo book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction

12. The Wright 3 (Chasing Vermeer, #2)

By: Brett Helquist , Blue Balliett

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery wh… read more

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13. The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts

By: Richard Peck

4.73

Format: None pages,

In 1904, Russell Culver 15 wants to leave school and his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky… read more

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14. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

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15. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

By: Jean Lee Latham

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to … read more

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Cover of Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

16. Pictures of Hollis Woods

By: Patricia Reilly Giff

4.03

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Reilly Giff's Pictures of Hollis Woods book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water."

-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

"Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it,…"

-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

Cover of Soar by Joan Bauer

17. Soar

By: Joan Bauer

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation… read more

Similar categories in Joan Bauer's Soar book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile

18. Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)

By: Brett Helquist , Blue Balliett

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange t… read more

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19. Granted

By: John David Anderson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From John David Anderson, author of the widely acclaimed and beloved novels Ms. Bixby's Last Day an… read more

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Cover of Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady

20. Toliver's Secret

By: Esther Wood Brady

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more

Similar categories in Esther Wood Brady's Toliver's Secret book and Elise Broach's Shakespeare's Secret

  • childrens
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21. Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

By: Nancy R. Pearcey

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Don't Think, Just Believe? That's the mantra in many circles today--whether the church, the classro… read more

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11 Best fiction books like Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

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Jennifer L. Holm

4.01

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Half a Chance

Cynthia Lord

3.99

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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor

4.31

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Shakespeare's Secret

Elise Broach

3.88

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Half a Chance

Cynthia Lord

3.99

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The Family Under the Bridge

Garth Williams , Natalie Savage Carlson

3.96

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Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)

Kirby Larson

4.02

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Elise Broach

3.88

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