Homegoing Read-a-likes For Teens

Homegoing is the selected title for the National Endowment for the Arts' Big Read in Charlotte. Here are some recommended read-a-likes!

Updated January 26, 2024
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The bitter side of sweet
Sullivan, Tara
Paper Book
For fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape a life of slavery in modern-day Ivory Coast Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou,...
Chains
Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Paper Book
From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling first novel in the historical middle grade The Seeds of America trilogy that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual. As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old...
A sitting in St. James
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Paper Book
Big Mouth galley mailing to 150 librarians, teachers, and other national tastemakers Advertising in key school & library media, such as School Library Journal and Booklist Teens' Top 10/YALSA ARE mailing to 15 teen reading groups across the country ...

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