Read-alikes and related books

Books like Nicholas Dane

If you loved Nicholas Dane by Melvin Burgess, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Sexual Abuse, Physical & Emotional Abuse, Orphans & Foster Homes, and Death, Grief, Bereavement.

Sexual Abuse Physical & Emotional Abuse Orphans & Foster Homes Death, Grief, Bereavement Social Topics Family Social Themes Europe Juvenile Nonfiction Historical Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Nicholas Dane

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

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes

See You on Venus

Victoria Vinuesa

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

After

Morris Gleitzman

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

My Brother’s Ghost

Allan Ahlberg

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

My Body is Private

Linda Walvoord Girard

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Social Topics

The Closest I’ve Come

Fred Aceves

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Social Topics

The Hummingbird Killer

Finn Longman

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

The Dead I Know

Scot Gardner

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

Moth to a Flame

Finn Longman

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#10

Saving Daisy

Phil Earle

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#11

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#12

How to Make Friends with the Dark

Kathleen Glasgow

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#13

The Trouble with Half a Moon

Danette Vigilante

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics

#14

The New David Espinoza

Fred Aceves

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Social Topics

#15

Finding Katie The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care

Beatrice Sparks

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes

#16

Tangled in Time: the Portal

Kathryn Lasky

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Social Topics • Family

#17

Faceless

Kathryn Lasky

Themes: Orphans & Foster Homes • Social Topics • Family

#18

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#19

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

Robin Stevens

Themes: Death, Grief, Bereavement • Social Topics • Family

#20

A Chance in the World (Young Readers Edition) An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home

Steve Pemberton

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes • Social Topics

#21

The Way I Am Now

Amber Smith

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Social Topics

#22

The War I Finally Won

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes • Family

#23

The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Themes: Physical & Emotional Abuse • Orphans & Foster Homes • Family

#24

ABC of Body Safety and Consent Teach Children about Body Safety, Consent, Safe/unsafe Touch, Private Parts, Body Boundaries & Respect

Jayneen Sanders

Themes: Sexual Abuse • Physical & Emotional Abuse • Social Topics

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Nicholas Dane by Melvin Burgess — spanning Sexual Abuse, Physical & Emotional Abuse, Orphans & Foster Homes and featuring authors such as Michelle Magorian, Victoria Vinuesa, Morris Gleitzman, Allan Ahlberg, and others.