Books like Something Like Home

Looking for books like Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango (Verse Novel · grades 6–8)? It’s most often read for its themes of family, identity, and perseverance. The 10 titlesbelow are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

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10 books similar to Something Like Home

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Why each is a match

Bud, Not Buddy950L
Shares themes of family, identity, and perseverance and overlapping grades (4–7).
Other Words for Home930L
Shares themes of family and identity, same genre (Verse Novel), and overlapping grades (4–7).
The Crossover750L
Shares themes of family and identity, same genre (Verse Novel), and overlapping grades (5–8).
A Work in Progressgrades 4–8
Shares themes of identity, same genre (Verse Novel), and overlapping grades (4–8).
Bookedgrades 5–8
Shares themes of family, same genre (Verse Novel), and overlapping grades (5–8).
Boy 2.0grades 4–8
Shares themes of family and identity and overlapping grades (4–8).
Brick Dust and Bonesgrades 6–8
Shares themes of family and perseverance and overlapping grades (6–8).
Control Freaksgrades 6–8
Shares themes of identity and perseverance and overlapping grades (6–8).
Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knightgrades 3–6
Shares themes of family and identity and overlapping grades (3–6).
Everything We Never Hadgrades 7–12
Shares themes of family and identity and overlapping grades (7–12).

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