18 books like Playlist for the Dead

What to read after Playlist for the Dead — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Rodrick Rules Jeff Kinney · 2007 · ★ 4.2 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer. Shares Amistad, Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Friendship

The Temptress four Gaby Triana · 2008 · 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, Friendship, Children's fiction

Ivy + Bean and the ghost that had to go Annie Barrows · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 135p · ≈ 4h · Light Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school. Shares Amistad, Spanish language materials, Friendship, Children's fiction

The Big Catch Anastasia Suen · 2009 Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise. Shares Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Children's fiction

Roller Girl Victoria Jamieson · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Roller Girl is a young adult graphic novel written and illustrated by Victoria Jamieson, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 2015. It is set in contemporary Portland, Oregon and details how the hero, Astrid, becomes a roller derby skater. It was named a Newbery Honor book in 2016. Shares Amistad, Spanish language materials, Friendship, Children's fiction

Voices Ursula K. Le Guin · 2006 · ★ 3.4 · 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

Sinister street Sir Compton Mackenzie · 1913 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Michael Fane arrives in the thin red house in Carlington Road to his new family of Nurse, Cook, Annie the housemaid, his younger sister Stella, and the occasional presence of Mother. From here, the novel follows the next twenty years of his life as he tries to find his place in the upper echelons of Edwardian society, through prep school, studies at Oxford, and his emergence into the wide world.… Shares Bildungsromans

Der Nachsommer Adalbert Stifter · 1900 · 927p · ≈ 30h · Challenging Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture Helena Feder · 2016 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Bildungsromans with this book.

Abyssinian Chronicles Moses Isegawa · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 493p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "The teller of this tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early l960s, he is raised by his grandfather, a deposed clan chief, and his great-aunt, or "grandmother," after his parents immigrate to the capital city of Kampala. At… Shares Bildungsromans

Gadis Pantai Pramoedya Ananta Toer · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In a poor coastal fishing village, a beautiful girl unknowingly attracts the attention of a local aristocrat. Before she knows it, she is forced to marry this man she has never seen and leave behind all that is familiar to her - her carefree days spent helping her mother with daily tasks, dreamily listening to the sounds of the wind and the waves, and watching boats come and go. She is taken… Shares Bildungsromans

Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel · 1976 · ★ 4.4 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Frog and Toad All Year is an American picture book written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published by Harper & Row in 1976. It is the third book in the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. ---------- Also contained in: The Frog and Toad Treasury Shares Amistad, Ficción juvenil, Friendship, Children's fiction

Le suicide Émile Durkheim · 1850 · ★ 3.2 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic. Shares Suicidio, Suicide

Benny And Omar Eoin Colfer · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In my old school, we had fighting, no pool and there'd be vicious matches against the other schools . . . I miss all that stuff!"Moving to Africa is the worst thing that has ever happened to Benny Shaw. No one plays hurling (the best game on the planet) and the local school is run by hippies who like to talk about feelings. As if.But when Benny meets wisecracking Omar (the name's Bond, James… Shares Bildungsromans, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Children's fiction

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Sharon Creech · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Light Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories… Shares Amistad, Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Friendship

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, Friendship, Children's fiction

Judy Moody Megan McDonald · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Judy Moody’s new friendship with Amy Namey causes problems with her old friends and the school project they are working on together. Suggested level: primary, intermediate. Shares Amistad, Friendship, Children's fiction

The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick · 1920 · ★ 4.2 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a… Shares Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Children's fiction

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