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Books like Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech · 1994 · US · literary fiction · young adult
★ 4.00 Goodreads · 176,036 ratings

Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle rides with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho, retracing her mother's journey, and passes the time telling them the strange story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has disappeared.

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Paper Towns

John Green · 2008 · US 96% match ★ 3.70 Goodreads · 1,524,717 ratings
shares: mystery, road trip, coming of age · easy read, intimate

Quentin Jacobsen has loved his adventurous neighbour Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar for years, and after she takes him on a night of revenge pranks across Orlando and then disappears, he follows the clues she left behind.

Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano · 2020 · US 95% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 230,016 ratings
shares: healing, tender, family, coming of age · easy read, wrenching

Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills 191 people, his parents and older brother among them, and as he goes to live with his aunt and uncle in New Jersey the novel moves between his new life and the last hours of the flight.

The Last Story of Mina Lee

Nancy Jooyoun Kim · 2020 · US 95% match ★ 3.53 Goodreads · 46,966 ratings
shares: mystery, mother daughter, family · easy read, earnest

When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson · 1977 · US 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 605,780 ratings
shares: children, tender, family, coming of age · easy read, clear-cut

Jess Aarons, a fifth-grader in rural Virginia who wants to be the fastest runner in his school, befriends Leslie Burke, the imaginative new girl next door, and together they create Terabithia, a secret kingdom in the woods.

Banyan Moon

Thao Thai · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 35,332 ratings
shares: mother daughter, family · easy read, earnest

After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.

Medicine Walk

Richard Wagamese · 2014 · Canada 94% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 14,043 ratings
shares: healing, Indigenous, road trip, family · easy read, earnest

Franklin Starlight, sixteen, is summoned by the father who never raised him, dying of drink, who asks to be taken into the British Columbia backcountry and buried in the warrior way.

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · 2015 · US 94% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 645,762 ratings
shares: road trip, tender · easy read, wrenching

Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of their Indiana high school's bell tower, and a class project to explore the wonders of their state draws them together as each struggles with what brought them there.

Whistler

Ann Patchett · 2026 · US 94% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 246,960 ratings
shares: tender, family · easy read, interior

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.

Wonder

R. J. Palacio · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 1,229,189 ratings
shares: children, family · easy read, plain prose

August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.

Goodnight Mister Tom

Michelle Magorian · 1981 · UK 94% match ★ 4.32 Goodreads · 54,919 ratings
shares: healing, children, tender · easy read, wrenching

In 1939 William Beech, a thin, frightened evacuee from London, is billeted with Tom Oakley, a gruff old widower in a country village who has kept to himself for forty years.

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander · 2014 · US 94% match ★ 4.20 Goodreads · 70,314 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Crossover
shares: children, family, coming of age · easy read, clear-cut

Twelve-year-old twins Josh and Jordan Bell are basketball stars like their father, a former pro, and as Jordan falls for a girl and their father's health becomes a worry, Josh tells the story of their season in verse.

The Crow Road

Iain Banks · 1992 · UK 94% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 24,948 ratings
shares: mystery, family, coming of age · easy read, clear-cut

Home for a funeral, student Prentice McHoan starts looking into the disappearance of his uncle Rory, a writer who vanished years before, in a novel that is part mystery, part family saga and part love letter to Argyll.