Read-alikes and related books

Books like Looking for Red

What to read after Looking for Red by Angela Johnson: 24 titles sharing themes of Adolescence & Coming of Age, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Siblings, and African American & Black, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Adolescence & Coming of Age Death, Grief, Bereavement Siblings African American & Black People & Places Family Social Themes United States Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Looking for Red

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Looking for Red.

The Key to the Golden Firebird

Maureen Johnson

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

My Jasper June

Laurel Snyder

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

A Place to Shine

Marie Arnold

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

Root Magic

Eden Royce

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Siblings • African American & Black

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

Between Two Brothers

Crystal Allen

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Siblings • African American & Black

Turning Point

Paula Chase

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Siblings • African American & Black

The Scarlet Stockings Spy

Trinka Hakes Noble

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Siblings • African American & Black

#10

The Queens of New York

E. L. Shen

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

#11

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

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

#12

After Iris

Natasha Farrant

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#13

Tyler Johnson Was Here

Jay Coles

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings • African American & Black

#14

Spin

Lamar Giles

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black

#15

The First Part Last

Angela Johnson

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black • People & Places

#16

Under the Mesquite

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#17

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#18

Ruby Lost and Found

Christina Li

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • People & Places

#19

Dough Boys

Paula Chase

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black • People & Places

#20

Joseph

Shelia P. Moses

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black • People & Places

#21

On Air with Zoe Washington

Janae Marks

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black • People & Places

#22

Ghosts for Breakfast

Stanley Todd Terasaki

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black • People & Places

#23

Smoke

Ellen Hopkins

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Siblings

#24

Num8ers

Rachel Ward

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black • People & Places

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Looking for Red by Angela Johnson. Connected by Adolescence & Coming of Age, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Siblings. Authors featured include Maureen Johnson, Laurel Snyder, Marie Arnold, Karina Yan Glaser, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.