15 best-selling childrens books like Soar by Joan Bauer

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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…

If you liked the childrens plot in Soar by Joan Bauer , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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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 Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • 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. Chester and Gus

By: Cammie McGovern

4.30

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

You meet your person and you connect. You know that you’re meant to be together. Then you learn wha… read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Chester and Gus book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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3. Ms. Bixby's Last Day

By: John David Anderson

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The good ones. The not-so-good ones. The bori… read more

Similar categories in John David Anderson's Ms. Bixby's Last Day book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"... stories are everywhere, just waiting to be found..."

-John David Anderson, Ms. Bixby's Last Day

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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 Joan Bauer's Soar

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

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5. The Mark of the Dragonfly

By: Jaleigh Johnson

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a cara… read more

Similar categories in Jaleigh Johnson's The Mark of the Dragonfly book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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6. 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 Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
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7. The Warden's Daughter

By: Jerry Spinelli

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Audio CD

From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Stargirl) comes the "moving and memorable" (Kir… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Spinelli's The Warden's Daughter book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

8. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story

By: Nora Raleigh Baskin

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Anything But Typical comes a touching look at the days lead… read more

Similar categories in Nora Raleigh Baskin's Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story book and Joan Bauer's Soar

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

9. 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

Similar categories in Reema Goode's Which None Can Shut book and Joan Bauer's Soar

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10. Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

By: Polly Horvath

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing… read more

Similar categories in Polly Horvath's Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1) book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
"At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all."

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

"You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, …"

-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)

11. The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1)

By: Gary L. Blackwood

3.74

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal… read more

Similar categories in Gary L. Blackwood's The Shakespeare Stealer (Shakespeare Stealer, #1) book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

12. Ghost (Track, #1)

By: Jason Reynolds

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Running. That's all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track te… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Ghost (Track, #1) book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • sports
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13. Out of the Dust

By: Karen Hesse

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm, Tad Carpenter

14. The Fourteenth Goldfish

By: Jennifer L. Holm , Tad Carpenter

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleve… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's The Fourteenth Goldfish book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction

15. Masterminds (Masterminds, #1)

By: Gordon Korman

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a thrilling new middle grade trilogy about a group of k… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Masterminds (Masterminds, #1) book and Joan Bauer's Soar

16. Slacker

By: Gordon Korman

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and … read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slacker book and Joan Bauer's Soar

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 Joan Bauer's Soar

  • baseball
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • family
  • sports
  • juvenile
Cover of Slugfest by Gordon Korman

18. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's Slugfest book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • sports
  • juvenile
Cover of The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) by Karina Yan Glaser

19. The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Wink by Rob Harrell

20. Wink

By: Rob Harrell

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A wrenching and hilarious story about embracing life's weirdness and surviving an unthinkable diagn… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harrell's Wink book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Deep Water by Watt Key

21. Deep Water

By: Watt Key

4.18

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade survival story about a scuba dive gone wrong and two enemies who must unite to survi… read more

Similar categories in Watt Key's Deep Water book and Joan Bauer's Soar

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to."

-Watt Key, Deep Water

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Jennifer L. Holm

4.01

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4.30

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Ms. Bixby's Last Day

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4.27

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Shakespeare's Secret

Elise Broach

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Penny from Heaven

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4.01

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Half a Chance

Cynthia Lord

3.99

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Leslie Connor

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