Books like Lyddie

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson reads as determined, earnest. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

These Happy Golden Years

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1943

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

My Brother Sam Is Dead

James Lincoln Collier · 1974

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

The perilous road

William O. Steele · 1958

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

A Gathering of Days

Joan W. Blos · 1979

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Skylark

Patricia MacLachlan · 1994

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

When my name was Keoko

Linda Sue Park · 2002

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

A Light in the Storm

Karen Hesse · 1999

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Cookcamp

Gary Paulsen · 1991

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Bronze Bow

Elizabeth George Speare · 1961

Same historical feel

54% genome match

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt · 1964

Shares the escape thread

69% genome match

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968

Shares the escape + vspare thread

69% genome match