Books like Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy by Gary D. Schmidt reads as poignant, hopeful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Moon Over Manifest

Clare Vanderpool · 2010

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Adib Khorram

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Princess Academy

Shannon Hale · 2005

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley #2)

Maud Hart Lovelace · 1950

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Loveless

Alice Oseman

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

It's Like This, Cat

Emily Cheney Neville · 1992

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Belle Prater's boy

Ruth White · 1996

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

On a Sunbeam

Tillie Walden

Shares the foundfamily + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead · 2020

Shares the comingofage + hopeful thread

69% genome match