Read-Alike Collection written by Penny PeckChildren'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 isĀ on the increase, so BayNews now offers a regular column of read-alikes, which is posted in this section of our website.
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 isĀ on the increase, so BayNews now offers a regular column of read-alikes, which is posted in this section of our website.
Some of Our Most Popular Read-Alikes
Our Complete Read-Alike Collection
Books
- "A Universe of Stories"
- "I Survived" series
- "It's Showtime at Your Library"
- "Libraries Rock!"
- "Reading Takes You Everywhere"
- 39 Clues
- 5th Wave
- Adventures of Captain Underpants
- Among the Hidden
- Anna Was Here
- BFG
- Big Nate
- Book of Three
- Books Written in the Form of Letters
- Borrowers
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chasing Vermeer
- Choose Your Own Adventures
- Circuit
- Counting by 7s
- Crenshaw
- Crossover
- Dear Martin
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
- Dog Man
- Doll Bones
- Dork Diaries
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Every Hero Has a Story
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Fish In a Tree
- Five Feet Apart
- Flipped
- Flora & Ulysses
- Fortunately, the Milk
- Fuzzy Mud
- Ghost
- Girl Who Drank the Moon, The
- Giver, The
- Goosebumps
- Harry Potter
- Harry Potter
- Hatchet
- Hattie Big Sky
- Hunger Games
- Hunger Games
- Hunger Games
- I Funny
- I Know Someone With Dyslexia
- Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Junie B. Jones
- Land of Stories Series
- Last Kids on Earth
- Lawn Boy
- Lawn Boy
- Little House on the Prairie
- Losers Club
- Lyddie
- Magic Misfits, The
- Magic Tree House
- Mary Poppins
- Mortal Engines
- Mrs. Bixby's Last Day
- New Kid
- Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
- Novels in Alternating Voices
- Novels in the Form of Emails/Texts/Blogs
- Novels in the form of Emails/Texts/Blogs
- Origami Yoda
- Paper Towns
- Penderwicks
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series
- Phantom Tollbooth, The
- Positively Izzy
- Read to the Rhythm
- Redwall
- Refugee
- Sal & Gabi Break the Universe
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- Septimus Heap
- Serafina and the Black Cloak
- Seventh Wish
- Shakespeare Stealer, The
- Shakespeare's Secret
- Shooting Kabul
- Sky Raiders
- Some Kind of Courage
- Sports and Games
- Squirm
- Sword of Summer Series
- Tale from Alcatraz Series
- Tempests and Slaughter
- Thing About Jellyfish
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before
- Treasure Hunters
- Twilight
- War Horse
- War That Saved My Life
- Warriors
- When the Sea Turned to Silver
- Wild Robot
- Wolf Wilder
- Wolves of the Beyond
- Wonder
- Word of Mouse
- Wrinkle in Time, A
Authors
- Alexander, Kwame
- Alexander, Lloyd
- Anderson, John David
- Angleberger, Tom
- Applegate, Katherine
- Balliett, Blue
- Barnhill, Kelly
- Barraclough, Sue
- Beatty, Robert
- Benjamin, Ali
- Birdsall, Jeanne
- Black, Holly
- Blackwood, Gary
- Braillier, Max
- Broach, Elise
- Brown, Peter
- Brubaker, Kimberly
- Choldenko, Gennifer
- Clements, Andrew
- Colfer, Chris
- Collins, Suzanne
- Collins, Suzanne
- Collins, Suzanne
- Craft, Jerry
- Dahl, Roald
- Dahl, Roald
- DiCamillo, Kate
- Gaiman, Neil
- Gemeinhart, Dan
- Grabenstein, Chris
- Gratz, Alan
- Green, John
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Han, Jenny
- Harris, Neil Patrick
- Hernandez, Carlos
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Hunt, Lynda Mullaly
- Hunter, Erin
- Jacques, Brian
- Jimenez, Francisco
- Joyce, William
- Juster, Norton
- Kinney, Jeff
- Kinney, Jeff
- Kurtz, Jane
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Larson, Kirby
- Lasky, Kathryn
- Lebenson, Terri
- Lin, Grace
- Lippincott, Rachael
- Lowry, Lois
- Marpurgo, Michael
- Messner, Kate
- Meyer, Stephanie
- Mull, Brandon
- Norton, Mary
- Palacio, R.J.
- Park, Barbara
- Paterson, Katherine
- Patterson, James
- Patterson, James
- Patterson, James
- Paulsen, Gary
- Paulsen, Gary
- Paulsen, Gary
- Peirce, Lincoln
- Pierce, Tamora
- Pilkey, Dav
- Pilkey, Dav
- Pope Osborne, Mary
- Reeve, Philip
- Reynolds, Jason
- Riordan, Rick
- Riordan, Rick
- Riordan, Rick
- Rowling, J. K.
- Rowling, J. K.
- Rowling, J.K.
- Rundell, Katherine
- Russell, Rachel Renee
- Sachar, Louis
- Sage, Angie
- Schwartz, Alvin
- Selznick, Brian
- Senzai, N. H.
- Sloan, Holly Goldberg
- Stine, R.L.
- Stone, Nic
- Tarshis, Lauren
- Travers, P.L.
- Van Draanen, Wendelin
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Yancey, Rick
Topic or Series
- 2015 Summer Reading - Heroes
- 2015 Summer Reading - Rhythm
- 2016 Summer Reading
- 2017 Summer Reading Theme "Reading by Design"
- 2018 Summer Reading
- 2018 Summer Reading
- 2019 Summer Reading
- 2019 Summer Reading
- Adventure
- Alternating Voices
- Animal Fantasy
- Bike to School
- Books on Grief or Loss
- Books set during the Great Depression
- Books Written in the Form of Letters
- Captain Underpants
- Carnival Life
- Chapter book series
- Choose Your Own Adventures
- Chronicles of Prydain Series
- Classics
- Classics
- Contemporary novels that are a twist on Shakespeare's plays
- Drugs and Addiction
- Dyslexia
- Dystopia
- Dystopia
- Dystopian Tween Fiction
- Dystopian Tween Fiction
- Emails, Text Message, Blogs
- Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurship
- Fantasy
- Fantasy
- Fantasy
- Fantasy novels featuring average kids with mythical powers
- Fantasy novels featuring average kids with mythical powers
- Fiesty female character
- Fizz, Boom, Read!
- Fractured Fairy Tales
- Ghost stories
- Ghost stories
- Graphic Novel
- Grief and Loss
- Guardians of Childhood
- Harry Potter
- Historical Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Homelessness
- Homesteading Fiction
- Immigrants
- Learning Disabilities
- Light-hearted Fantasy
- Multiple-Perspective
- Mysteries
- Mysteries
- Novels in the Form of Emails/Texts/Blogs
- Novels set at the time of Shakespeare
- Organized Labor
- Paranormal Fiction
- Paws to Read
- Penderwicks Series
- Realistic Fiction
- Romance
- Romance
- Science Fiction
- Short Novels
- South Asian Characters
- Tragic Tales for Primary Grades
- Western Fiction
- Whimsical Fantasy
- Wilderness Survival