Books like Small steps
Small steps by Louis Sachar reads as hopeful, realistic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Sisters/Hermanas
Gary Paulsen · 1993
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
70% genome match
The Cay
Theodore Taylor · 1969
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
70% genome match
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli · 2003
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Crabbe
William Bell · 1986
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Tex
S. E. Hinton · 1979
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
76% genome match
The Way I Used To Be
Amber Smith · 2016
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
70% genome match
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech · 2000
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
Daja's book
Tamora Pierce · 1998
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
70% genome match
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · 2007
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
83% genome match
The Wild Robot Escapes
Peter Brown · 2016
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
69% genome match
What do fish have to do with anything? and other stories
Avi · 1997
Shares the comingofage + vspare thread
70% genome match
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt · 2015
Shares the vspare thread
69% genome match
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