Read-alikes and related books

Books like Maggot Moon

If you loved Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Military & Wars, Social Issues, Dystopian, and Friendship.

Military & Wars Social Issues Dystopian Friendship Historical Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Maggot Moon

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

My Friend The Enemy

J. B. Cheaney

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Friendship

The Elementals

Saundra Mitchell

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Friendship

Code Name Verity

Elizabeth Wein

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Friendship

The Kill Order

James Dashner

Themes: Social Issues • Dystopian • Friendship

The Drowned Cities

Paolo Bacigalupi

Themes: Social Issues • Dystopian • Friendship

Taste of Salt A Story of Modern Haiti

Frances Temple

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

Ripples

Leigh Anne Fortner

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

The Enemy A Book About Peace — Davide Calì

Davide Cali

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

#10

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

#11

Wolf by Wolf One girl s mission to win a race and kill Hitler

Ryan Graudin

Themes: Military & Wars • Dystopian • Historical

#12

Beyond Courage The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Doreen Rappaport

Themes: Military & Wars • Social Issues • Historical

#13

Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi

Themes: Social Issues • Dystopian

#14

Squire

Sara Alfageeh

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#15

Stepping on the Cracks

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#16

Finding Junie Kim

Ellen Oh

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#17

Partials

Dan Wells

Themes: Social Issues • Dystopian

#18

Sharpshooter

Chris Lynch

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#19

The Last Cherry Blossom

Kathleen Burkinshaw

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#20

Nora’s Chicks

Patricia MacLachlan

Themes: Social Issues • Friendship • Historical

#21

Falling Out of Time

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Themes: Dystopian • Friendship • Historical

#22

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

Themes: Social Issues • Dystopian

#23

Casualties of War

Chris Lynch

Themes: Military & Wars • Friendship • Historical

#24

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

Gennifer Choldenko

Themes: Social Issues • Friendship • Historical

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner. Connected by Military & Wars, Social Issues, Dystopian. Authors featured include J. B. Cheaney, Saundra Mitchell, Elizabeth Wein, James Dashner, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.