Read-alikes and related books

Books like Turning Point

What to read after Turning Point by Paula Chase: 24 titles sharing themes of Religion & Faith, Alternative Family, Adolescence & Coming of Age, and Stories in Verse, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Religion & Faith Alternative Family Adolescence & Coming of Age Stories in Verse Social Topics Siblings African American & Black LGBTQ People & Places Friendship Family Poetry Social Themes United States Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Turning Point

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Keeping It Real

Paula Chase

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse

Better Together, Cinderella

Ashley Franklin

Themes: Alternative Family • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Partly Cloudy

Tanita S. Davis

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Serena Says

Tanita Davis

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

To Be Perfectly Honest A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Sonya Sones

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Unsettled

Reem Faruqi

Themes: Religion & Faith • Stories in Verse • Siblings

Mirror to Mirror

Rajani LaRocca

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Siblings

The Moon Within

Aida Salazar

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • LGBTQ

A-Okay

Jarad Greene

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Social Topics • Siblings

#10

Candidly Cline

Kathryn Ormsbee

Themes: Religion & Faith • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Social Topics

#11

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Janae Marks

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse

#12

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

Tanita Davis

Themes: Stories in Verse • Siblings • African American & Black

#13

Rain Rising

Courtne Comrie

Themes: Stories in Verse • Siblings • African American & Black

#14

Mapmaker

Lisa Moore Ramée

Themes: Stories in Verse • Siblings • African American & Black

#15

Tethered to Other Stars

Elisa Stone Leahy

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Social Topics • Siblings

#16

Drag Teen A Tale of Angst and Wigs

Jeffery Self

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Social Topics • LGBTQ

#17

Zuri Ray Tries Ballet

Tami Charles

Themes: Stories in Verse • Social Topics • African American & Black

#18

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Stories in Verse • Siblings • African American & Black

#19

A Song Called Home

Sara Zarr

Themes: Religion & Faith • Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age

#20

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Social Topics • African American & Black • LGBTQ

#21

The Everybody Experiment

Lisa Moore Ramée

Themes: Social Topics • Siblings • African American & Black

#22

A Soft Place to Land

Janae Marks

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black

#23

Rain Remembers

Courtne Comrie

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • African American & Black

#24

Indigo Dreaming

Dinah Johnson

Themes: Stories in Verse • African American & Black • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Religion & Faith, Alternative Family, Adolescence & Coming of Age — the same threads that run through Turning Point by Paula Chase. Among the authors featured: Paula Chase, Ashley Franklin, Tanita S. Davis, Tanita Davis, and others.