21 Best middle grade books like The Way I Say It by Nancy Tandon

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The Way I Say It

By: Nancy Tandon

4.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Rory still can’t say his r’s, but that’s just the beginning of his troubles. First Rory’s ex-best-f…

If you liked the middle grade plot in The Way I Say It by Nancy Tandon , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

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2. Little Monarchs

By: Jonathan Case

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel adventure tells the story of 10-year-old Elvie and her crucial mission to save h… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Case's Little Monarchs book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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3. The Superteacher Project

By: Gordon Korman

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart and The Unteachables, comes a hilarious new s… read more

Similar categories in Gordon Korman's The Superteacher Project book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • juvenile
"I understand," he announces finally. "It's because I'm‒different." Paul is amazed. "You learned that from the internet?" "Not directly Mr. Aidact explains. "But I accessed a database of books and mov…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

"Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?' 'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing‒just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it cou…"

-Gordon Korman, The Superteacher Project

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4. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • childrens
  • school
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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5. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • contemporary
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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6. The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

By: G.Z. Schmidt

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange. Even before the incident. When six-year-old… read more

Similar categories in G.Z. Schmidt's The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"Knowledge, someone once said, was power—and the fewer children with power, the better."

-G.Z. Schmidt, The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby

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7. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's Frizzy book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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8. Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel

By: Betty C. Tang

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants, inspired by the au… read more

Similar categories in Betty C. Tang's Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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9. The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1)

By: Angie Thomas

4.19

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the lau… read more

Similar categories in Angie Thomas's The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1) book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Minerva Keen's Detective Club (MK's Detective Club, 1) by James  Patterson

10. Minerva Keen's Detective Club (MK's Detective Club, 1)

By: James Patterson

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s d… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Minerva Keen's Detective Club (MK's Detective Club, 1) book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh

11. You Are Here: Connecting Flights

By: Ellen Oh

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that im… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Oh's You Are Here: Connecting Flights book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
"Being good was slippery. It didn't stay still; it moved around, and not only that, sometimes it meant exactly opposite things. Like, there were times when being good meant speaking up, but other time…"

-Ellen Oh, You Are Here: Connecting Flights

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12. Honestly Elliott

By: Gillian McDunn

4.33

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McDunn's Honestly Elliott book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"

-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott

Cover of Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1) by Kelly Yang

13. Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1)

By: Kelly Yang

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” ( Booklist … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1) book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
Cover of Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) by Katherine Applegate

14. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Dogtown (Dogtown, #1) book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key by Tracy Occomy Crowder

15. Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key

By: Tracy Occomy Crowder

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It's 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carver is out to find the origin of a golden key fou… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Occomy Crowder's Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle by Taryn Souders

16. The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle

By: Taryn Souders

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Grady and his dad learn that the town oddball, Eudora "Kooky" Klinch left something for them i… read more

Similar categories in Taryn Souders's The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
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17. Home Away From Home

By: Cynthia Lord

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything ar… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Lord's Home Away From Home book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • audiobook
Cover of It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds

18. It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

By: Justin A. Reynolds

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Eddie Gordon Holloway has concocted his most genius plan ever to avoid chores... es… read more

Similar categories in Justin A. Reynolds's It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • childrens
  • juvenile
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Dude, I haven't even picked the sleep outta my eyeball crevices yet. Like this can't be life."

-Justin A. Reynolds, It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

"Mom made me watch this boring documentary where this kid my age - twelve, if it matters to you - is hand-scrubbing clothes against a block of wood for hours, which, ugh, brutal. And you wanna know ho…"

-Justin A. Reynolds, It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

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19. To Catch a Thief

By: Martha Brockenbrough

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Urchin Beach isn’t the sort of place where bad things happen. The little seaside town is too lucky … read more

Similar categories in Martha Brockenbrough's To Catch a Thief book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Etta Invincible by Reese Eschmann

20. Etta Invincible

By: Reese Eschmann

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of… read more

Similar categories in Reese Eschmann's Etta Invincible book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"I’ll be honest, Etta. The last few days have been hard for me. I think I’m just sick of all this rain. Sometimes storms… they get inside. We all need the sun."

-Reese Eschmann, Etta Invincible

Cover of The Way I Say It by Nancy Tandon

21. The Way I Say It

By: Nancy Tandon

4.52

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Rory still can’t say his r’s, but that’s just the beginning of his troubles. First Rory’s ex-best-f… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It book and Nancy Tandon's The Way I Say It

  • audiobook
  • school stories
  • childrens
  • school
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • contemporary
  • social issues
  • juvenile

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