Read-alikes and related books

Books like Turning Point

Readers who finished Turning Point by Paula Chase and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Religion & Faith, Alternative Family, Adolescence & Coming of Age, and Prejudice & Racism.

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

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Janae Marks

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism

Rain Rising

Courtne Comrie

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse • Siblings

Better Together, Cinderella

Ashley Franklin

Themes: Alternative Family • Stories in Verse • Siblings

Root Magic

Eden Royce

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • Siblings

Unsettled

Reem Faruqi

Themes: Religion & Faith • Stories in Verse • Siblings

Let the Children March

Monica Clark-Robinson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse • African American & Black

The Moon Within

Aida Salazar

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

Partly Cloudy

Tanita S. Davis

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

#10

Mapmaker

Lisa Moore Ramée

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

#11

Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

Tanita Davis

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

#12

A Song Called Home

Sara Zarr

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

#13

Mirror to Mirror

Rajani LaRocca

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

#14

In the Beautiful Country

Jane Kuo

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse

#15

The Aurora County All-Stars

Deborah Wiles

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse

#16

If I Should Die Before I Wake

Han Nolan

Themes: Religion & Faith • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#17

A Soft Place to Land

Janae Marks

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

#18

Serena Says

Tanita Davis

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

#19

Efrén Dividido Efrén Divided (Spanish Edition)

Ernesto Cisneros

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • Siblings

#20

I’m from

Gary R. Gray (Jr.)

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse • African American & Black

#21

To Be Perfectly Honest A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Sonya Sones

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

#22

I Rise

Marie Arnold

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • African American & Black

#23

Dear Black Child

Rahma Rodaah

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Stories in Verse • African American & Black

#24

Tethered to Other Stars

Elisa Stone Leahy

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Prejudice & Racism • Siblings

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, Janae Marks, Courtne Comrie, Ashley Franklin, and others.