Books like Mieko and the fifth treasure

Mieko and the fifth treasure by Eleanor Coerr reads as hopeful, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Tree by leaf

Cynthia Voigt · 1988

Shares the history + vspare thread

78% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the history + comingofage thread

70% genome match

Inside Out & Back Again

Thanhha Lai · 2011

Shares the history + vspare thread

75% genome match

Searching for Shona

Margaret Jean Anderson · 1978

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

The Tiger Rising

Kate DiCamillo · 2001

Shares the vspare thread

73% genome match

Life

Mal Peet · 2011

Shares the history + comingofage thread

69% genome match

A small free kiss in the dark

Glenda Millard · 2009

Shares the history + vspare thread

76% genome match

We are okay

Nina LaCour · 2017

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Summer of the Swans

Betsy Cromer Byars · 1970

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

The Cay

Theodore Taylor · 1969

Shares the comingofage + vspare thread

69% genome match

The war that Saved my Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2015

Shares the history + vspare thread

69% genome match

Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai · 2019

Shares the history + vspare thread

73% genome match