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Books like Sunnyside Plaza

Explore 24 books like Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon — a handpicked selection united by Disabilities, Adolescence & Coming of Age, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, and Emotions & Feelings.

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Top related books to Sunnyside Plaza

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Sunnyside Plaza.

Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

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Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

How to Disappear Completely

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Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

Fight + Flight

Jules Machias

Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

Five Things about Ava Andrews

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Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

Trudi & Pia

Ursula Hegi

Themes: Disabilities • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

The Cats of Silver Crescent

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Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

Boy Proof

Cecil Castellucci

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

Anything But Typical

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Emotions & Feelings

Breaking News

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Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#10

Coo

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Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#11

Out of My Heart

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Themes: Disabilities • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#12

What Happens Next

Claire Swinarski

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#13

Brave Like That

Lindsey Stoddard

Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

#14

Nat Enough

Maria Scrivan

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#15

Kyra, Just for Today

Sara Zarr

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#16

Don Mclean’s American Pie A Fable

Meteor 17 Books

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#17

The Boy with Big, Big Feelings

Britney Winn Lee

Themes: Disabilities • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#18

The World Needs who You Were Made to be

Joanna Gaines

Themes: Disabilities • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#19

Jayson Goes for It!

Brayden Harrington

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#20

Marvin’s Monster Diary 2 (+ Lyssa) ADHD Emotion Explosion (but I Triumph, Big Time), an ST4 Mindfulness Book for Kids

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Themes: Disabilities • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#21

Listen to This

Jennifer Blecher

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#22

The Rules of Regret

Megan Squires

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

#23

Half a World Away

Cynthia Kadohata

Themes: Disabilities • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Emotions & Feelings

#24

Summer and July

Paul Mosier

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Emotions & Feelings

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon. Connected by Disabilities, Adolescence & Coming of Age, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance. Authors featured include Caela Carter, Ali Standish, Jules Machias, Margaret Dilloway, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.