Books like NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

Looking for books like NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society by Michael Buckley (Juvenile Fiction · grades 3–6)? 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.

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10 books similar to NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

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A Boy at Wargrades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
A Story, a Storygrades K–3
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (K–3).
A Tree Is Nicegrades K–3
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (K–3).
A Year Down Yondergrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).
All the Blues in the Skygrades 3–7
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–7).
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.grades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
Arrow to the Sungrades K–3
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (K–3).
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!grades 3–6
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (3–6).
Big Snow and Other Storiesgrades K–3
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (K–3).
Black and Whitegrades K–3
Same genre (Juvenile Fiction) and overlapping grades (K–3).

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