Books like Inside Out & Back Again

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai reads as poignant, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai · 2019

Shares the escape + history thread

87% genome match

Rebound

Kwame Alexander · 2018

Shares the escape + vspare thread

78% genome match

Keeping the night watch

Hope Anita Smith · 2008

Shares the escape + vspare thread

75% genome match

When the emperor was divine

Julie Otsuka · 2002

Shares the escape + history thread

73% genome match

The war that Saved my Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2015

Shares the escape + history thread

69% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the escape + history thread

74% genome match

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis · 2000

Shares the escape + history thread

69% genome match

Tree by leaf

Cynthia Voigt · 1988

Shares the escape + history thread

72% genome match

The breadwinner

Nora Twomey · 2001

Shares the escape + history thread

71% genome match

A small free kiss in the dark

Glenda Millard · 2009

Shares the escape + history thread

71% genome match

Searching for Shona

Margaret Jean Anderson · 1978

Shares the escape + history thread

76% genome match

Street Love

Walter Dean Myers · 2006

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match