What books are similar to The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales?

The 10 closest matches to The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales by Jane Yolen on ReadingList include Girl in a Cage, The Devil's Arithmetic, And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, One More Flight, and Summer of My German Soldier. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 4–9), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.

Are books like The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales reading-level appropriate?

Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades 4–9), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.

How does ReadingList choose similar books?

Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Books like The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales

If you liked The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales, read Girl in a Cage, The Devil's Arithmetic, or And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine — the closest matches in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Closest match: Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen

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Looking for books like The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales by Jane Yolen (Children's · grades 4–9)? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level, and each linked to the curricula, states, and grades where it’s assigned, with primary sources.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 4–9 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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Girl in a Cagegrades 3–8: Is by Jane Yolen, the same author and overlapping grades (3–8). Amazon → books like this →
The Devil's Arithmetic730L: Is by Jane Yolen, the same author and overlapping grades (5–8). Amazon → books like this →
And You Give Me a Pain, Elainegrades 4–9: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9). Amazon → books like this →
One More Flightgrades 4–9: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9). Amazon → books like this →
Summer of My German Soldiergrades 4–9: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9). Amazon → books like this →
A Life in the Wildgrades 4–10: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–10). Amazon → books like this →
A Room on Lorelei Streetgrades 4–9: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9). Amazon → books like this →
Abigail Adamsgrades 4–10: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–10). Amazon → books like this →
Absolutely Positively Notgrades 3–8: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (3–8). Amazon → books like this →
After the Dancing Daysgrades 4–9: Both on the Golden Kite Award list, same genre (Children's), and overlapping grades (4–9). Amazon → books like this →

Common questions

What books are similar to The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales?: The 10 closest matches to The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales by Jane Yolen on ReadingList include Girl in a Cage, The Devil's Arithmetic, And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, One More Flight, and Summer of My German Soldier. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades 4–9), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.
Are books like The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales reading-level appropriate?: Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades 4–9), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.
How does ReadingList choose similar books?: Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Book data last updated 2026-09-05. Matches are computed from each book’s cited attributes — see the methodology.

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