Read-alikes and related books

Books like Chains

What to read after Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson: 24 titles sharing themes of Spies & Spying, Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Military & Wars, and African American & Black, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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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 • African American & Black

The Scarlet Stockings Spy

Trinka Hakes Noble

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • African American & Black

Choose Your Own Adventure Spies: James Armistead Lafayette

Kyandreia Jones

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • African American & Black

Nathan Hale Revolutionary Spy

Nathan Olson

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars

The Secret of Sarah Revere

Ann Rinaldi

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars

Loyalty

Avi

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars

George Washington, Spymaster How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War

Thomas B. Allen

Themes: Spies & Spying • Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars

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

Tim Grove

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • African American & Black

The Untold Story of the Black Regiment Fighting in the Revolutionary War

Michael Burgan

Themes: Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Military & Wars • African American & Black

#10

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

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

#11

Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen

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

#12

The Winter People

Joseph Bruchac

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

#13

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

Rush Limbaugh

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

#14

Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

Guillermo Del Toro

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

#15

Kin Rooted in Hope

Carole Boston Weatherford

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

#16

My Name is Oney Judge

Diane D. Turner

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

#17

Jump Ship to Freedom

James Lincoln Collier

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

#18

Charlotte Spies for Justice A Civil War Survival Story

Nikki Shannon Smith

Themes: Spies & Spying • African American & Black • People & Places

#19

Blossom, a Girl’s Adventures in Revolutionary Rockland

Eileen Switzer-Clarke

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

#20

Guts & Glory: World War II

Ben Thompson

Themes: Spies & Spying • Military & Wars • People & Places

#21

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Caroline B. Cooney

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

#22

The Boston Massacre

Michael Burgan

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

#23

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

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

#24

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

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

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. Connected by Spies & Spying, Colonial & Revolutionary Periods, Military & Wars. Authors featured include Laurie Halse Anderson, Trinka Hakes Noble, Kyandreia Jones, Nathan Olson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.