What books are similar to Juana and Lucas?

The 10 closest matches to Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina on ReadingList include A Green Place to be, Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Balloons over Broadway, Bink and Gollie: Two for One, and Charlie & Mouse Even Better. Each is scored on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level (grades K–3), and links to the curricula, states, and grades where it is assigned in US schools, with primary sources.

Are books like Juana and Lucas reading-level appropriate?

Yes — every match is a reading-level match, not just a topical one, scored on Lexile and grade band (grades K–3), so the picks stay grade-appropriate. See how ReadingList judges text difficulty on the /standard methodology page.

How does ReadingList choose similar books?

Matches are ranked by shared themes, shared award and reading-program lists (two books picked for the same state award were chosen by the same committees for the same readers), same genre, comparable Lexile and grade band, and publication decade — computed from cited public curriculum data, not editorial opinion or AI-generated summaries.

Books like Juana and Lucas

If you liked Juana and Lucas, read A Green Place to be, Are You Ready to Play Outside?, or Balloons over Broadway — the closest matches in our database, matched on shared award lists and reading level.

Closest match: A Green Place to be by Ashley Benham Yazdani

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Looking for books like Juana and Lucas by Juana Medina? The 10 titles below are the closest matches in the ReadingList database — each scored on shared themes, shared award lists, 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 K–3 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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A Green Place to begrades K–5: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–5), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Are You Ready to Play Outside?grades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Balloons over Broadwaygrades 1–4: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (1–4), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Bink and Gollie: Two for Onegrades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Charlie & Mouse Even Bettergrades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Don't Throw It to Mo!grades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Fox the Tigergrades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–2), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
Otis and Will Discover the Deepgrades K–5: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list, overlapping grades (K–5), and the same era (2010s). Amazon → books like this →
An American Storygrades K–3: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list and overlapping grades (K–3). Amazon → books like this →
Benny and Penny in the Big No-No!grades K–2: Both on the Garden State Children's Book Award list and overlapping grades (K–2). Amazon → books like this →