Books like Grounded

Looking for books like Grounded by Aisha Saeed, S.K. Ali, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Huda Al-Marashi (Middle Grade Fiction · grades 4–8)? It’s most often read for its themes of friendship, identity, and adventure. 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 4–8 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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Why each is a match

A Royal Conundrumgrades 3–6
Shares themes of friendship, identity, and adventure and overlapping grades (3–6).
Boy 2.0grades 4–8
Shares themes of identity and adventure, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–8).
Confessions of a Class Clowngrades 6–8
Shares themes of friendship and identity, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–8).
Control Freaksgrades 6–8
Shares themes of friendship and identity, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–8).
The First State of Beinggrades 6–8
Shares themes of friendship and identity, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (6–8).
Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet820L
Shares themes of friendship and identity, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (3–6).
Stuart Little920L
Shares themes of friendship and adventure, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (3–5).
The Mouse and the Motorcycle860L
Shares themes of friendship and adventure, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (2–4).
The Season of Styx Malone510L
Shares themes of friendship and adventure, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (3–7).
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobodygrades 4–8
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Middle Grade Fiction), and overlapping grades (4–8).

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