![]() ![]() ![]() When a tragedy throws her whole family into grief and uncertainty, Fran suddenly appreciates and understands the relationships and bonds in her life much more. Twelve-year-old Fern feels like the one member of her family who doesn’t quite fit in OR stand out. With a main character who believes he can analyze his way through his feelings and lots of tears jerked this is for fans of Green’s An Abundance of Katherines and The Fault in our Stars. A great #WeNeedDiverseBooks selection for fans of Green’s The Fault in our Stars.ĭaniel is trying to figure out what “kind” of death his older brother Eli had – was it a heroic death or an accidental one? Daniel creates his own Book of the Dead to figure death out but it’s not as easy as he thought. ![]() Chia herself grows as she learns about her own strengths. This book follows her whole family’s struggles as they cope with the illness. (Also published under the name Your Best Friend, Meredith)Īsk My Mood Ring How I Feel by Diana LopezĮrica “Chia” Montenegro’s entire life is thrown into a tailspin when her beloved mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. How dare Anjali die? In this smart, funny, book twelve-year-old Meredith writes the late Anjali letters to help her work through her grief and confusion about Anjali’s sudden death and how life is moving on even though the pain. Meredith is so angry with her best friend Anjali. For fans of Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. This is an emotional, funny, romantic, smart well-written tear-jerker. But when his brother is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven’s whole life flips upside down and he learns some hard lessons about what really matters. Steven is an average eighth grader: he plays drums in the school band, has an unrequited crush on the wrong girl, and gets very annoyed with his five-year-old brother. For fans of Green’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson and Looking for Alaska.ĭrums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick This is a sweet romantic comedy with two openly gay middle school leads, a true rarity. Hijinks, complications, and revelations ensue. But before they do, they decide to pull off one last caper – get Marco on stage at the high school prom to confess his crush on Benji. Now they’re about to graduate eighth grade and head to high school. Try them out with your middle grade readers and see what they have to say!īest friends Stephen and Marco came out in seventh grade. John greenbooks free#I’ve made specific connections to how each fits with his books: feel free to use this language in booktalking them and displays. Here are ten middle grade titles I think are great read-alikes for the works of John Green. When we can make middle grade read-alike connections to YA books kids already love and know, we not only develop a stronger reader’s advisory relationship we help students expand their reading options and horizons. You might also be working in an elementary or middle school library that doesn’t/can’t carry YA – but you still want to connect with your patrons who are tuned into popular culture and reading widely. We should be promoting it and sharing it with our patrons. ![]() Not just because they might not be ready for it and not just because YA is richer and more resonant when the reader is the right age but because there is just so much great middle grade fiction. The problem is that while there are plenty of great YA read-alikes for John Green’s work, it’s harder to find middle grade read-alikes.Īnd I think it’s important to make sure our middle grade readers aren’t rushed into YA. Middle school readers – grades 6-8 – are the newest John Green converts. They obviously are – but they always have been, is the thing. Now, I don’t mean to suggest high schoolers aren’t reading John Green. I noticed that, almost without fail, the two biggest audiences for this title over the course of this past summer were adults of all ages and middle school aged readers. This pattern continued throughout the summer when The Fault in our Stars was never on our shelves. As soon as I held it up and said her story and her name, all tween eyes locked right on me. These are the diaries of the sixteen-year-old girl who inspired Green’s book. One of the books I brought to booktalk was This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Earl. And, by that same token, there was one book they knew: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. When I went to our local middle school to do class visits this May, there was one author that all the kids knew: Rick Riordan. ![]()
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