Read-alikes and related books

Books like Rooftop

24 books recommended for fans of Rooftop by Paul Volponi, tied together by themes of Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Violence, Prejudice & Racism, and City Life.

Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse Violence Prejudice & Racism City Life Death, Grief, Bereavement African American & Black People & Places Young Adult Fiction Family Social Themes United States Juvenile Fiction Fiction

Top related books to Rooftop

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

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Violence • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Tyler Johnson Was Here

Jay Coles

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • Death, Grief, Bereavement

I Am Alfonso Jones

Tony Medina

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • Death, Grief, Bereavement

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

I Rise

Marie Arnold

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Takedown

Allison van Diepen

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Violence • African American & Black

Rain Rising

Courtne Comrie

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Saving Savannah

Tonya Bolden

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#10

All American Boys

Jason Reynolds

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#11

Ghosts for Breakfast

Stanley Todd Terasaki

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black

#12

Shine Bright

Kheris Rogers

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#13

Sincerely Sicily

Tamika Burgess

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#14

Runner

Carl Deuker

Themes: Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse • Violence • People & Places

#15

Ghost Boys

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black

#16

The Probability of Everything

Sarah Everett

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Death, Grief, Bereavement • African American & Black

#17

Iron River

Daniel Acosta

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#18

The Music of what Happens

Bill Konigsberg

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#19

Dear Martin

Nic Stone

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#20

Split the Sky

Marie Arnold

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#21

Come Home Safe A Novel

Brian G. Buckmire

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#22

Words By Heart

Ouida Sebestyen

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#23

Saints of the Household

Ari Tison

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • People & Places

#24

Punching the Air

Ibi Aanu Zoboi

Themes: Violence • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

Fans of Rooftop by Paul Volponi will find 24 titles here, all united by Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Violence, Prejudice & Racism. Authors represented include Walter Dean Myers, Jay Coles, Tony Medina, Han Nolan, and others.