Children's library staff members are often called upon to do readers' advisory - offering reading selections to a young person based on that person's interests. Many times a reader will offer the title of a favorite book, and want similar books, which we call Read-Alikes. The demand for read-alikes seems to be on the increase, so BayNews will now offer a regular column of read-alikes, which we will also post in a separate tab on our website.

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• Novels in Alternating Voices (2/2013)
• The Borrowers (5/2012)
• Chasing Vermeer and other mysteries (11/2012)
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (10/2011)
• Dyslexia (2/2012)
• Email, Text Message, Blog (10/2011)
• Guardians of Childhood  (12/2012)
• Harry Potter series (10/2012)
• Hatchet and Wilderness Survival Fiction (11/2011)
• Homsteading Fiction (3/2013)
• Hunger Games and Dystopian Tween Fiction (11/2011)
• Novels with Indian, Pakistani, and Afghan Asian-American Characters  (2/2013)
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret (12/2011)
• Junie B. Jones (8/2012)
• Letters (10/2011)
• Little House on the Praire (9/2012)
• Magic Tree Houseseries (5/2013)
• Percy Jackson (9/2011)
• Roald Dahl (whimisical fantasy) (10/2012)
• The Penderwicks (5/2012)
• The Phantom Tollbooth (3/2012)
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark  (6/2012)
• 39 Clues (7/2012)
• Twilight (9/2011)
• War Horse (12/2011)
• Warriors (9/2011)
• Wonder (1/2013)
• A Wrinkle in Time (1/2012)