Read-alikes and related books

Books like Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea

24 titles for readers of Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea by Anna Humphrey, selected for shared themes: Inventions, Dating & Relationships, Technology, and Social Topics.

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Top related books to Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea

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

Tbh #8 TBH, I Don’t Want to Say Good-Bye

Lisa Greenwald

Themes: Inventions • Technology • Social Topics

Little Blue Truck

Alice Schertle

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

Cece Loves Science and Adventure

Kimberly Derting

Themes: Inventions • Technology • School & Education

Sincerely, Emerson A Girl, Her Letter, and the Helpers All Around Us

Emerson Weber

Themes: Inventions • Technology • Social Topics

The Boy Who Made the World Disappear

Ben Miller

Themes: Technology • Social Topics • School & Education

Too Much Glue

Jason Lefebvre

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

Moving Day

Meg Cabot

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

Candidly Cline

Kathryn Ormsbee

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

Wing Nut

Mary Jane Auch

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • Science & Nature

#10

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager

Ben Philippe

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#11

The Order of the Trees

Katy Farber

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • Science & Nature

#12

The Boy on Cinnamon Street

Phoebe Stone

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#13

Birdsong

Julie Flett

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • Science & Nature

#14

The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away — Frances O’Roark Dowell

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#15

Elvis & Olive Super Detectives

Stephanie Watson

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#16

Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy)

Alison McGhee

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#17

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#18

Can We Be Friends? Unexpected Animal Friendships from Around the World

Erica Sirotich

Themes: Inventions • Technology • Social Topics

#19

Sorry You’re Lost

Matt Blackstone

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#20

We’ll Always Have Summer

Jenny Han

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • Science & Nature

#21

My New Best Friend

Julie Bowe

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#22

Hunter’s Best Friend at School

Laura Malone Elliott

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#23

Horrible Harry and the Stolen Cookie

Suzy Kline

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • School & Education

#24

Layla’s Happiness

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Themes: Dating & Relationships • Social Topics • Science & Nature

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Inventions, Dating & Relationships, Technology — the same threads that run through Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea by Anna Humphrey. Among the authors featured: Lisa Greenwald, Alice Schertle, Kimberly Derting, Emerson Weber, and others.