6 must-read poetry books like Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth

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Apple: Skin to the Core

By: Eric Gansworth

3.78

Format: 339 pages, None

Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of a…

If you liked the poetry plot in Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Serpent King

By: Jeff Zentner

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minist… read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Dear Martin

By: Nic Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter De… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Secret Coders (Secret Coders, #1)

By: Gene Luen Yang , Mike Holmes

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founde… read more

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4. All of the Above

By: Shelley Pearsall

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner city … read more

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5. #Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women

By: Lisa Charleyboy , Mary Beth Leatherdale

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indig… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Charleyboy's #Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • poetry
  • nonfiction

6. Mexican WhiteBoy

By: Matt de la Peña

3.50

Format: None pages,

Danny's tall and skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a p… read more

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7. Apple: Skin to the Core

By: Eric Gansworth

3.78

Format: 339 pages, None

Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of a… read more

Similar categories in Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • teen
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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  • family
"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

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9. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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  • audiobook
"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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10. Healer of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, h… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep

By: Allan Wolf

4.18

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's… read more

Similar categories in Allan Wolf's The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • poetry
  • teen
  • audiobook
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12. Internment

By: Samira Ahmed

3.87

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old … read more

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  • teen
  • audiobook
"I wonder if all moms do this—try to make the terrifying seem mundane."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"In the quiet of the night, the heart knows the lies you told to survive."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"When you appease a man's conscience, you can take his freedom and he will thank you for it."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

"It's not about danger. It's about fear. People are willing to trade their freedom, even for a false sense of protection."

-Samira Ahmed, Internment

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13. Ground Zero

By: Alan Gratz

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at … read more

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  • audiobook
"And without a dream, without ambition, what point was there to living?"

-Alan Gratz, Ground Zero

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14. Roxy

By: Neal Shusterman

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the team that brought you the New York Times bestselling Dry comes a riveting new thriller tha… read more

Similar categories in Neal Shusterman's Roxy book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • teen
  • audiobook
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15. The Collectors

By: A.S. King

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-M… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's The Collectors book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • audiobook
  • teen
  • lgbt
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16. Hearts Unbroken

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the though… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Hearts Unbroken book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • teen
  • family
"Do you believe in God?' 'I believe in kissing you."

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Hearts Unbroken

"Damn it, Lou!' Two hours later, Cam pounded at the steering wheel of his SUV, which was parked in my driveway. 'Stop being so dramatic. I can't second-guess every fucking word that flies out of my fu…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Hearts Unbroken

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17. Ordinary Hazards

By: Nikki Grimes

4.40

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a mem… read more

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  • poetry
  • biography
  • memoir
  • teen
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreamin…"

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

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18. Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

By: Adrienne Keene

4.60

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Keene's Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • lgbt
Cover of From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

19. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

By: Paula Yoo

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

By: Diana Whitney

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Poems to Turn to Again and Again – from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More   Created a… read more

Similar categories in Diana Whitney's You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves book and Eric Gansworth's Apple: Skin to the Core

  • poetry
  • teen
  • lgbt
Cover of Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems by Nikki Grimes

21. Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems

By: Nikki Grimes

4.44

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes explains, “A study of scripture reveals tha… read more

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  • poetry

12 Best audiobook books like Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth

Transform Your Habits

The Serpent King

Jeff Zentner

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Apple: Skin to the Core

Eric Gansworth

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Warrior Girl Unearthed

Angeline Boulley

4.34

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5 best-selling history books like Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene

Transform Your Habits

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

4.41

Transform Your Habits

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Anton Treuer

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

Adrienne Keene

4.60

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