# Books like Cornbread & Poppy

**10** books similar to *Cornbread & Poppy* by Matthew Cordell (Early Chapter Book · grades 2–3), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

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## Similar books

- [The Puffin Keeper](https://readinglist.school/book/the-puffin-keeper) by Michael Morpurgo _(Grades 2–3)_ — Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, same genre (Early Chapter Book), and overlapping grades (2–3).
- [Wolf in the Snow](https://readinglist.school/book/wolf-in-the-snow) by Matthew Cordell _(Grades K–3)_ — Is by Matthew Cordell, the same author and overlapping grades (K–3).
- [Beanie the Bansheenie](https://readinglist.school/book/beanie-the-bansheenie) by Eoin Colfer _(Grades 2–5)_ — Same genre (Early Chapter Book), overlapping grades (2–5), and the same era (2020s).
- [Picture Purrfect (Bodega Cats #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/picture-purrfect-bodega-cats) by Hilda Eunice Burgos _(Grades 2–5)_ — Same genre (Early Chapter Book), overlapping grades (2–5), and the same era (2020s).
- [Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School](https://readinglist.school/book/scare-school-diaries-welcome-to-scare-school) by Jarrett Lerner _(Grades 3–6)_ — Same genre (Early Chapter Book), overlapping grades (3–6), and the same era (2020s).
- [Action!: How Movies Began](https://readinglist.school/book/action-how-movies-began) by Meghan McCarthy _(Grades 2–3)_ — Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, overlapping grades (2–3), and the same era (2020s).
- [Because of You, John Lewis](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-you-john-lewis) by Andrea Davis Pinkney _(Grades 3–5)_ — Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, overlapping grades (3–5), and the same era (2020s).
- [Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/blue) by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond _(Grades 2–3)_ — Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, overlapping grades (2–3), and the same era (2020s).
- [Concrete: From the Ground Up](https://readinglist.school/book/concrete-from-the-ground-up) by Larissa Theule _(Grades 2–3)_ — Both on the South Dakota Prairie Bud, Bloom & Pasque Awards list, overlapping grades (2–3), and the same era (2020s).
- [Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/magic-tree-house-dinosaurs-before-dark) by Mary Pope Osborne _(510L · Grades 1–4)_ — Same genre (Early Chapter Book) and overlapping grades (1–4).

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