Books like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Looking for books like The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (Realistic Fiction · grades 7–10)? It’s most often read for its themes of friendship, growing up, and family. 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.

These are reading-level matches, not just topical ones — so the picks stay grade-appropriate for a grades 7–10 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

10 books similar to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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Why each is a match

Diary of a Wimpy Kid950L
Shares themes of friendship, growing up, and family and overlapping grades (3–7).
The Season of Styx Malone510L
Shares themes of friendship, growing up, and family and overlapping grades (3–7).
Walk Two Moons770L
Shares themes of friendship and family, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (5–7).
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life890L
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–7).
Fablehavengrades 4–7
Shares themes of friendship and family and overlapping grades (4–7).
Forged by Firegrades 7–10
Shares themes of family, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–10).
Hoot760L
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–7).
Rulesgrades 4–7
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–7).
So B. Itgrades 5–8
Shares themes of family, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (5–8).
Surviving the Applewhitesgrades 5–8
Shares themes of family, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (5–8).

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