# Something Like Home

**Author:** Andrea Beatriz Arango
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2023
**Genre:** Verse Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9780593566183`
**ISBN-10:** `0593566181`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/something-like-home
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A Pura Belpré Honor novel-in-verse: placed with an aunt she barely knows, a lonely girl rescues a stray dog and slowly finds her way back toward family and belonging. Andrea Beatriz Arango's grades 6-8 verse novel is a 2025-2026 Virginia Readers' Choice (Middle School) nominee.

## Themes

- family
- identity
- perseverance

## Where this book is assigned

### Rhode Island Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Rhode Island — [source: Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) — Rhode Island Children's Book Award official nominee lists, 2020-2026 cycles (statewide grades 3-5 children's-choice program; students read the annual nominees and vote).](https://olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Rhode Island — [source: Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) — Rhode Island Children's Book Award official nominee lists, 2020-2026 cycles (statewide grades 3-5 children's-choice program; students read the annual nominees and vote).](https://olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Rhode Island — [source: Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) — Rhode Island Children's Book Award official nominee lists, 2020-2026 cycles (statewide grades 3-5 children's-choice program; students read the annual nominees and vote).](https://olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award)

### South Carolina Junior Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · South Carolina — [source: South Carolina Junior Book Award (South Carolina Association of School Librarians) — 2025-26 nominee (grades 6-8), read + voted by South Carolina students; nominee list via studySC / SC State Library + SCASL](https://www.scasl.net/junior-book-award)

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)

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