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Books like The Cay

Explore 24 books like The Cay by Theodore Taylor — a handpicked selection united by Prejudice & Racism, Survival Stories, African American & Black, and People & Places.

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Top related books to The Cay

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to The Cay.

Timothy of the Cay

Theodore Taylor

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Survival Stories • African American & Black

Freewater

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Survival Stories • African American & Black

The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Survival Stories • African American & Black

Lena and the Burning of Greenwood A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story

Nikki Shannon Smith

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Survival Stories • African American & Black

Deathless Divide

Justina Ireland

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Survival Stories • African American & Black

The Parker Inheritance

Varian Johnson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

Promises to the Dead

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

Conjure Island

Eden Royce

Themes: Survival Stories • African American & Black • People & Places

Treasure Island Runaway Gold

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: Survival Stories • African American & Black • People & Places

#10

These Hands

Margaret H. Mason

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#11

Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#12

The Ever-After Bird

Ann Rinaldi

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#13

Mapmaker

Lisa Moore Ramée

Themes: Survival Stories • African American & Black • People & Places

#14

Midnight Without a Moon

Linda Williams Jackson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#15

That Flag

Tameka Fryer Brown

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#16

Armstrong and Charlie

Steven Frank

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#17

Let the Children March

Monica Clark-Robinson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#18

America, My Love, America, My Heart

Daria Peoples

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#19

Root Magic

Eden Royce

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#20

Call Me By My Name

John Ed Bradley

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#21

The Hero Two Doors Down Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

Sharon Robinson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#22

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#23

The Road to Memphis

Mildred D. Taylor

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

#24

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Prejudice & Racism, Survival Stories, African American & Black — the same threads that run through The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Among the authors featured: Theodore Taylor, Amina Luqman-Dawson, Kwame Alexander, Nikki Shannon Smith, and others.