Books like Shut Up, This Is Serious

Looking for books like Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta (Young Adult Fiction · grades 9–12)? It’s most often read for its themes of friendship, identity, and family. 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 9–12 reader. See how we judge text difficulty on our methodology page.

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Why each is a match

The Outsiders750L
Shares themes of friendship, identity, and family, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–9).
Everything We Never Hadgrades 7–12
Shares themes of identity and family, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–12).
Never Thought I'd End Up Heregrades 7–12
Shares themes of identity and family, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–12).
The Poet X800L
Shares themes of identity and family, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (8–12).
Four for the Roadgrades 9–12
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (9–12).
Ruby Lost and Foundgrades 6–9
Shares themes of identity and family and overlapping grades (6–9).
The Forbidden Bookgrades 7–12
Shares themes of identity, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–12).
The Reappearance of Rachel Pricegrades 7–12
Shares themes of identity and family and overlapping grades (7–12).
The Silence That Binds Usgrades 9–12
Shares themes of identity, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (9–12).
American Born Chinese530L
Shares themes of identity, same genre (Young Adult Fiction), and overlapping grades (7–12).

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