Read-Alike Suggestions
BayNews features read-alike ideas compiled by Penny Peck.
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 now offers a regular column of read-alikes, which is posted in this section of our website.
NEW / Author / Title / Subject or Series Summer Reading : 2014 – Paws to Read (CLA/IRead) / 2014 – Fizz Boom Read! (CLSP)
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- Book of Three – Read-alikes for the Chronicles of Prydain series by Llyod Alexander (12/2014)
Authors
- Alexander, Llyod
- Balliett, Blue
- Birdsall, Jeanne
- Black, Holly
- Blackwood, Gary
- Broach, Elise
- Choldenko, Gennifer
- Colfer, Chrisl
- Collins, Suzanne
- Dahl, Roald
- DiCamillo, Kate
- Gaiman, Neill
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Hunter, Erin
- Jacques, Brian
- Jimenez, Francisco
- Joyce, William
- Juster, Norton
- Kinney, Jeff
- Kurtz, Jane
- Larson, Kirby
- Lasky, Kathryn
- LEngle, Madeleine
- Lowry, Lois
- Meyer, Stephenie
- Montgomery, R.A.
- Morpurgo, Michael
- Mull, Brandon
- Osborne, Mary Pope
- Palacio, R.J.
- Paterson, Katherine
- Paulsen, Gary – Hatchet
- Paulsen, Gary – Lawn Boy
- Norton, Mary
- Park, Barbara
- Riordan, Rick
- Rowling, J.K.
- Sage, Angie
- Schwartz. Alvin
- Selznick, Brian
- Travers, P.L.
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Title
- Al Capone Does My Shirts (10/2013)
- Among the Hidden (1/2014)
- Anna Was Here (5/2014)
- Book of Three (12/2014)
- The Borrowers (5/2012)
- Chasing Vermeer (11/2012)
- Choose Your Own Adventures (11/2014)
- The Circuit (11/2013)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (8/2013)
- Doll Bones (6/2014)
- Flora and Ulysses (10/2014)
- Fortunately, the Milk (8/2014)
- The Giver(8/2014)
- Harry Potter (10/2012)
- Hatchet (11/2011)
- Hattie and the Big Sky (3/2013)
- Hunger Games (11/2011)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret (12/2011)
- James and Giant Peach (10/2012)
- Junie B. Jones (8/2012)
- Lawn Boy (4/2014)
- The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (9/2014)
- Little House on the Praire (9/2012)
- Lone Wolf (7/2013)
- Lyddie (12/2013)
- Magic Tree Houseseries (5/2013)
- Magyk (6/2013)
- Mary Poppins (12/2013)
- Nicolas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King (12/2012)
- Percy Jackson (8/2013)
- Redwall (10/2014)
- The Penderwicks (5/2012)
- The Phantom Tollbooth (3/2012)
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (6/2012)
- The Shakespeare Stealer (9/2013)
- Shakespeare’s Secret (9/2013)
- Sky Raiders (7/2014)
- 39 Clues (7/2012)
- Twilight (9/2011)
- War Horse (12/2011)
- Warriors (9/2011)
- Wonder (1/2013)
- A Wrinkle in Time (1/2012)
Subject or Series
- 2014 Summer Reading Program “Fizz, Boom, Read!” (2/2014)
- 2014 Summer Reading Program “Paws to Read” (2/2014)
- Alternating Voices (2/2013)
- Choose Your Own Adventures (11/2014)
- Chronicles of Prydain (12/2014)
- Dyslexia (2/2012)
- Dystopian Fiction (11/2011)
- Email, Text Message, Blog (10/2011)
- Entrepreneurs (4/2014)
- Five Kingdoms series (7/2014)
- Great Depression (10/2013)
- Guardians of Childhood series (12/2012)
- Harry Potter series (10/2012)
- Homesteading Fiction (3/2013)
- Novels with Indian, Pakistani, and Afghan Asian-American Characters (2/2013)
- The Land of Stories series (9/2014)
- Letters (10/2011)
- Magic Tree Houseseries (5/2013)
- Mysteries (11/2012)
- Percy Jackson (8/2013)
- Septimus Heap (6/2013)
- Shadow Children series (1/2014)
- Shakespeare’s time period – The Shakespeare Stealer (9/2013)
- Shakespeare’s plays – contemporary – Shakespeare’s Secret (9/2013)
- Short Tween Novels (8/2014)
- Survival Fiction (11/2011)
- 39 Clues (7/2012)
- Warriors (9/2011)
- Whimisical fantasy (10/2012)
- Wolves of the Beyond series (7/2013)