Read-alikes and related books

Books like All about Sam

Across Blended Families, New Baby, Baby Animals, and Boys & Men — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as All about Sam by Lois Lowry.

Blended Families New Baby Baby Animals Boys & Men Stories in Verse Marriage & Divorce Chapter Books Emotions & Feelings Siblings Girls & Women Readers Humorous Stories Family Classics Poetry Social Themes Animals Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to All about Sam

A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of All about Sam.

Harriet Tells the Truth

Elana K. Arnold

Themes: New Baby • Baby Animals • Boys & Men

My Life Begins!

Patricia MacLachlan

Themes: New Baby • Baby Animals • Boys & Men

Mary Poppins Collection

Pamela Lyndon Travers

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

A Voice in the Wind

Kathryn Lasky

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

The Miraculous Sweetmakers #1: The Frost Fair

Natasha Hastings

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

Quick As a Cricket

Audrey Wood

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library

Eth Clifford

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Stories in Verse

Mr. Gedrick and Me

Patrick Carman

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

The Bold, Brave Bunny

Beth Ferry

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

#10

Baby’s Here!

Jessica Young

Themes: New Baby • Baby Animals • Boys & Men

#11

The Moffats

Eleanor Estes

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Marriage & Divorce

#12

Just Grace and the Double Surprise

Charise Mericle Harper

Themes: New Baby • Chapter Books • Emotions & Feelings

#13

Elephant Secret

Eric Walters

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

#14

Don’t Worry, Murray

David Ezra Stein

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

#15

The Wayside School 4-Book Box Set Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down, Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom

Louis Sachar

Themes: Baby Animals • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

#16

Oh, Sal

Kevin Henkes

Themes: New Baby • Boys & Men • Chapter Books

#17

Harriet Spies

Elana K. Arnold

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#18

The Door at the End of the World

Caroline Carlson

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Stories in Verse

#19

The House in the Night

Susan Marie Swanson

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Boys & Men

#20

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

Mem Fox

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

#21

Spy Guy The Not-so-secret Agent

Jessica E. Young

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

#22

Everything Comes Next Collected and New Poems

Naomi Shihab Nye

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

#23

Class Action

Steven B Frank

Themes: Blended Families • Boys & Men • Stories in Verse

#24

Two Dogs

Ian Falconer

Themes: Blended Families • New Baby • Baby Animals

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Blended Families, New Baby, Baby Animals — the same threads that run through All about Sam by Lois Lowry. Among the authors featured: Elana K. Arnold, Patricia MacLachlan, Pamela Lyndon Travers, Kathryn Lasky, and others.