Read-alikes and related books

Books like After Zero

Readers who finished After Zero by Christina Collins and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Depression & Mental Illness, Bullying, Parents, and Intermediate.

Depression & Mental Illness Bullying Parents Intermediate Death, Grief, Bereavement Siblings School & Education Readers Friendship Family Social Themes Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to After Zero

Each title here shares meaningful common ground with After Zero — in theme, mood, or literary style.

The Kate in Between

Claire Swinarski

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Bullying • Parents

Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

Dara Palmer’s Major Drama

Emma Shevah

Themes: Parents • Intermediate • Siblings

Just Grace 3-Book Paperback Box Set

Charise Mericle Harper

Themes: Parents • Intermediate • School & Education

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

Perfect

Natasha Friend

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

Sardines

Sashi Kaufman

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Siblings

Amelia Bedelia and Friends #3: Amelia Bedelia and Friends Arise and Shine

Herman Parish

Themes: Parents • Intermediate • School & Education

Resurrection of the Phoenix’s Grace (Book Four) Phoenix Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy with Phoenixes

LRW Lee

Themes: Parents • Intermediate • Siblings

#10

The Year We Fell from Space

Amy Sarig King

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Bullying • Parents

#11

It’s a Baby, Andy Russell

David A. Adler

Themes: Parents • Siblings • School & Education

#12

Zeke Meeks Vs the Gruesome Girls

D. L. Green

Themes: Parents • Siblings • School & Education

#13

Lily’s Promise

Kathryn Erskine

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#14

Beginners Welcome

Cindy Baldwin

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#15

Balloons for Papa A Story of Hope and Empathy

Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#16

Right as Rain

Lindsey Stoddard

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#17

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#18

The Crossover Tie-In Edition

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#19

Rumble

Ellen Hopkins

Themes: Bullying • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#20

The Hummingbird Killer

Finn Longman

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#21

Clues to the Universe

Christina Li

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#22

The Year the Maps Changed

Danielle Binks

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#23

Moth to a Flame

Finn Longman

Themes: Bullying • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#24

Love, Aubrey

Suzanne LaFleur

Themes: Depression & Mental Illness • Death, Grief, Bereavement • School & Education

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Depression & Mental Illness, Bullying, Parents — the same threads that run through After Zero by Christina Collins. Among the authors featured: Claire Swinarski, Gary D. Schmidt, Emma Shevah, Charise Mericle Harper, and others.

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