Read-alikes and related books

Books like Chains

24 titles for readers of Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, selected for shared themes: African American, Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Military & Wars, and People & Places.

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Top related books to Chains

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Chains.

Ashes

Laurie Halse Anderson

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: African American • Military & Wars • People & Places

Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

Rush Revere and the American Revolution Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans

Rush Limbaugh

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

Squanto’s Journey The Story of the First Thanksgiving

Joseph Bruchac

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Guillermo Del Toro

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

Lauren Tarshis

Themes: African American • Military & Wars • People & Places

The Winter People

Joseph Bruchac

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

#10

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Caroline B. Cooney

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

#11

Building a New Land African Americans in Colonial America

James Haskins

Themes: African American • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • People & Places

#12

The Drum of Destiny Gabriel Cooper & the Road to Revolution

Chris Stevenson

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#13

The American Revolution

Nancy Ohlin

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

#14

Guns for General Washington A Story of the American Revolution

Seymour Reit

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#15

Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider

E. F. Abbott

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#16

My Brother Sam is Dead

James Lincoln Collier

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#17

Sybil’s Night Ride — Karen B. Winnick

Karen B Winnick

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#18

Storyteller

Patricia Reilly Giff

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#19

The Secret of Sarah Revere

Ann Rinaldi

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#20

Abe Lincoln Remembers

Ann Turner

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#21

Boys of Wartime: Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776

Laurie Calkhoven

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#22

The Keeping Room

Anna Myers

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#23

Give Me Liberty — L. M. Elliott

L.M. Elliott

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • United States

#24

The World Turned Upside Down The Yorktown Victory That Won America’s Independence

Tim Grove

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • People & Places

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. Connected by African American, Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Military & Wars. Authors featured include Laurie Halse Anderson, Walter Dean Myers, Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.