Read-alikes and related books

Books like Back Home

What to read after Back Home by Michelle Magorian: 24 titles sharing themes of Prejudice & Racism, Parents, Social Topics, and School & Education, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Top related books to Back Home

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Back Home.

Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero

Saadia Faruqi

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Frankly in Love

David Yoon

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

My Long List of Impossible Things

Michelle Barker

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Best Friends

Jacqueline Wilson

Themes: Parents • Social Topics • School & Education

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

Themes: Parents • Social Topics • School & Education

Saint Iggy

K. L. Going

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

The Secrets of Billie Bright

Susie Day

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

Pea’s Book of Best Friends

Susie Day

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#10

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz A True Story Retold for Young Readers

Jeremy Dronfield

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#11

This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#12

Heartbreak Symphony

Laekan Zea Kemp

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#13

My Mother the Cheerleader

Robert Sharenow

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#14

I Rise

Marie Arnold

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#15

Solo

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#16

Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter

Shani Mahiri King

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#17

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Parents • Social Topics

#18

I’m Alice (I Think)

Susan Juby

Themes: Parents • Social Topics • School & Education

#19

Islandborn

Junot Díaz

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#20

The Black Kids

Christina Hammonds Reed

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#21

When the Schools Shut Down A Young Girl’s Story of Virginia’s Lost Generation and the Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Decision

Yolanda Gladden

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#22

Ace of Spades — Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#23

If You Come Softly

Jacqueline Woodson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Social Topics • School & Education

#24

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Parents • Social Topics • School & Education

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Back Home by Michelle Magorian — spanning Prejudice & Racism, Parents, Social Topics and featuring authors such as Saadia Faruqi, Melina Marchetta, David Yoon, Michelle Barker, and others.