18 books like Me, the Missing, and the Dead

What to read after Me, the Missing, and the Dead — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The real question Adrian Fogelin · 2006 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his ne'er-do-well neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof. Shares: Single-parent families, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Hunden som sprang mot en stjärna Henning Mankell · 1992 · ★ 3.5 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Moderate One of the world's bestselling authors has written a moving story about a teenager's life in Northern Sweden.12 year old Joel lives with his father in the cold northern part of Sweden. At night he often sneaks out of his father's house to look for a lonely dog he has seen from his window. On the bridge across the icy river he starts a secret society and has adventures. But one night he discovers… Shares: Single-parent families, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Absolute brightness James Lecesne · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In the beach town of Neptune, New Jersey, Phoebe's life is changed irrevocably when her gay cousin moves into her house and soon goes missing. Shares: Missing persons, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The trouble with Dad Babette Cole · 1985 · ★ 3.9 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Dad's fantastic robot creations cause the family to have incredible adventures. Shares: Fathers, Children's fiction

Alice in April Phyllis Reynolds Naylor · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 170p · ≈ 5h · Moderate While trying to survive seventh grade, Alice discovers that turning thirteen will make her the Woman of the House at home, so she starts a campaign to get more appreciated for taking care of her father and older brother. Shares: Single-parent families, Children's fiction

Voices Ursula K. Le Guin · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors. Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Picture Me Gone Meg Rosoff · 2000 · ★ 3.4 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing. Shares: Missing persons, Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Dogsong Gary Paulsen · 1985 · ★ 4.3 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up. Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Catalyst Laurie Halse Anderson · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet Kate Malone—straight-A science and math geek, minister's daughter, ace long-distance runner, new girlfriend (to Mitchell "Early Decision Harvard" Pangborn III), unwilling family caretaker, and emotional avoidance champion. Kate manages her life by organizing it as logically as the periodic table. She can handle it all—or so she thinks. Then, things change as suddenly as a string of chemical… Shares: Fathers, Death, Children's fiction

Hans Brinker, or, The silver skates Mary Mapes Dodge · 1876 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. Shares: Fathers, Children's fiction

Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the magical car Ian Fleming · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers. Shares: Single-parent families, Children's fiction

Shadow of a bull Maia Wojciechowska · 1964 · ★ 3.6 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Maia Wojciechowska's family fled Poland during World War II and emigrated to the United States after the war. She worked as an undercover detective, a motorcycle racer, a translator for Radio Free Europe, and a bullfighter before turning to writing. She was a friend of Ernest Hemingway, who said she knew more about bullfighting than any other woman. [from Amazon.com]"Manolo was only three when… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

The Temptress four Gaby Triana · 2008 · ★ 3.6 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Four best friends, one graduation cruise, a week of partying. Eight days of strife and storms . . .It's supposed to be the best eight days of their lives.Bonds will be broken... But when a fortune-teller predicts trouble the night before their trip, One of you will not come home...Fiona, Killian, Alma, and Yoli are left on edge, wondering what it could all mean. Gaby Triana gets right to the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

In search of Mockingbird Loretta Ellsworth · 2007 · ★ 3.5 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author. Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

After Tupac and D Foster Jacqueline Woodson · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died.The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another side of life that includes loss, foster families and an amount of freedom that makes the… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

Night of the Living Dummy III Robert Lawrence Stine · 1995 · ★ 3.6 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Trina's dad used to be a ventriloquist; his dummies are in the attic. Trina and her brother Dan hear voices in the attic; are the dummies alive? Shares: Fathers, Children's fiction

Sweet whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton · 1982 · ★ 3.6 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family’s past Fifteen-year-old Teresa has fallen in love—with a ghost. The handsome man that she’s passed on the street a few times captures her attention, and she thinks he notices her too. But when the man suddenly appears inside her home, hovering in the air and passing through solid furniture, Teresa… Shares: Single-parent families, Children's fiction

Keeper Mal Peet · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup... In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story – how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a… Shares: Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Children's fiction

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