Books like The Color of a Lie

Looking for books like The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson? 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 The Color of a Lie

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A Fate So Coldgrades 7–12
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African Towngrades 7–12
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All My Ragegrades 9–12
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universegrades 9–12
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Brownstonegrades 9–12
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Burn Down, Rise Upgrades 9–12
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Divine Rivalsgrades 9–12
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Everything Sad Is Untruegrades 9–12
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Everything We Never Hadgrades 7–12
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Firekeeper's Daughtergrades 9–12
Overlapping grades (9–12) and the same era (2020s).

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