Read-alikes and related books

Books like Forged by Fire

Looking for read-alikes for Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper? These 24 titles overlap in Physical & Emotional Abuse, Blended Families, Asian American & Pacific Islander, and Basketball and overall literary texture.

Physical & Emotional Abuse Blended Families Asian American & Pacific Islander Basketball Bullying Social Topics Siblings African American & Black People & Places Young Adult Fiction Family Sports & Recreation Social Themes United States Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Forged by Fire

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Forged by Fire.

The Closest I’ve Come

Fred Aceves

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Bullying • Social Topics

Finding Junie Kim

Ellen Oh

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Bullying • Social Topics

The Trouble with Half a Moon

Danette Vigilante

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Bullying • Social Topics

After the Shot Drops

Randy Ribay

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Basketball • African American & Black

You Don’t Know Me

David Klass

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Blended Families • Bullying

This Time Will Be Different

Misa Sugiura

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Social Topics • African American & Black

If These Wings Could Fly

Kyrie McCauley

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Bullying • Social Topics

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Basketball • Siblings • African American & Black

Darkness Before Dawn

Sharon M. Draper

Themes: Bullying • Social Topics • African American & Black

#10

Chinese Cinderella

Adeline Yen Mah

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Blended Families • Bullying

#11

Unsettled

Reem Faruqi

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Bullying • Siblings

#12

Reason to Breathe

Rebecca Donovan

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Bullying • Social Topics

#13

The Black Coats

Colleen Oakes

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Bullying • Social Topics

#14

Story for a Black Night

Clayton Bess

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Blended Families • Bullying

#15

El Crossover Crossover (Spanish Edition), a Newbery Award Winner

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Basketball • Siblings • African American & Black

#16

The Queens of New York

E. L. Shen

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Siblings • African American & Black

#17

Brothers

Yin

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Social Topics • Siblings

#18

Slam!

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Basketball • Social Topics • African American & Black

#19

Tethered to Other Stars

Elisa Stone Leahy

Themes: Bullying • Social Topics • Siblings

#20

Pippa Park Raises Her Game

Erin Yun

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Basketball • Bullying

#21

The Queens of New York A Novel

E. L. Shen

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Siblings • African American & Black

#22

The Kite Fighters

Linda Sue Park

Themes: Asian American & Pacific Islander • Siblings • People & Places

#23

Bea Is for Blended

Lindsey Stoddard

Themes: Blended Families • Bullying • Siblings

#24

Foul Trouble

John Feinstein

Themes: Basketball • African American & Black • People & Places

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper. Connected by Physical & Emotional Abuse, Blended Families, Asian American & Pacific Islander. Authors featured include Fred Aceves, Ellen Oh, Danette Vigilante, Randy Ribay, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.