Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Crossover

Explore 24 books like The Crossover by Kwame Alexander — a handpicked selection united by Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Basketball, Boys & Men, and Stories in Verse.

Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries Basketball Boys & Men Stories in Verse Parents Health & Daily Living Death, Grief, Bereavement Emotions & Feelings Siblings School & Education African American & Black People & Places Family Sports & Recreation Social Themes United States Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to The Crossover

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

The Crossover Tie-In Edition

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Basketball • Boys & Men

The Thing about Bees A Love Letter

Shabazz Larkin

Themes: Boys & Men • Stories in Verse • Parents

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Karina Yan Glaser

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

A Place to Shine

Marie Arnold

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Health & Daily Living • Death, Grief, Bereavement

Falling Short

Ernesto Cisneros

Themes: Basketball • Boys & Men • Parents

On My Honor

Marion Dane Bauer

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Parents

Red, White, and Whole A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Rajani LaRocca

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Stories in Verse • Health & Daily Living

Pink Hair and Other Terrible Ideas

Andrea Pyros

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

Zac and Mia

A. J. Betts

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Parents

#10

Will on the Inside

Andrew Eliopulos

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Health & Daily Living

#11

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

#12

Two Weeks with the Queen

Morris Gleitzman

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Health & Daily Living

#13

True Legend

Mike Lupica

Themes: Basketball • Boys & Men • School & Education

#14

All the Things We Never Knew

Liara Tamani

Themes: Basketball • Boys & Men • Emotions & Feelings

#15

The Barn

Avi

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

#16

Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Boys & Men • Parents • Death, Grief, Bereavement

#17

Jordan’s Perfect Haircut

Sharee Miller

Themes: Boys & Men • Parents • Health & Daily Living

#18

The Sea in Winter

Christine Day

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Health & Daily Living

#19

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

Tanita Davis

Themes: Stories in Verse • Siblings • School & Education

#20

When Mr. Dog Bites

Brian Conaghan

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

#21

Midnight Sun

Trish Cook

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

#22

Black Brother, Black Brother

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Themes: Boys & Men • Siblings • School & Education

#23

The Arrival of Someday

Jen Malone

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Boys & Men • Health & Daily Living

#24

Under the Mesquite

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Themes: Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries • Parents • Health & Daily Living

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Basketball, Boys & Men — the same threads that run through The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Among the authors featured: Kwame Alexander, Shabazz Larkin, Karina Yan Glaser, Marie Arnold, and others.