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Books like This Means War!

24 books recommended for fans of This Means War! by Ellen Wittlinger, tied together by themes of Adolescence & Coming of Age, Emotions & Feelings, 20th Century, and Friendship.

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Top related books to This Means War!

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to This Means War!.

Preacher’s Boy

Katherine Paterson

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century

Keeping Score

Linda Sue Park

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century

Don Mclean’s American Pie A Fable

Meteor 17 Books

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Ghostly Photos

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century • Friendship

Afterparty

Ann Redisch Stampler

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

Summer and July

Paul Mosier

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

Conjure Island

Eden Royce

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • 20th Century • Friendship

My Jasper June

Laurel Snyder

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

It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel

Firoozeh Dumas

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • 20th Century • Friendship

#10

A Soft Place to Land

Janae Marks

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

#11

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Secret Letters

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century • Friendship

#12

Partly Cloudy

Tanita S. Davis

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

#13

Incredibly Alice

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

#14

Root Magic

Eden Royce

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • 20th Century • Friendship

#15

Between Two Brothers

Crystal Allen

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

#16

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Gary D. Schmidt

Themes: Emotions & Feelings • 20th Century • Friendship

#17

Breda’s Island

Jessie Ann Foley

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

#18

Those Kids from Fawn Creek

Erin Entrada Kelly

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

#19

Timid: a Graphic Novel

Jonathan Todd

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

#20

How to Disappear Completely

Ali Standish

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

#21

A Song Called Home

Sara Zarr

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

#22

Will on the Inside

Andrew Eliopulos

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

#23

How to Be a Girl in the World

Caela Carter

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

#24

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World

Ashley Herring Blake

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Adolescence & Coming of Age, Emotions & Feelings, 20th Century — the same threads that run through This Means War! by Ellen Wittlinger. Among the authors featured: Katherine Paterson, Linda Sue Park, Meteor 17 Books, Margaret Peterson Haddix, and others.