Books like Yuna's Cardboard Castles

Looking for books like Yuna's Cardboard Castles by Marie Tang (Picture Book · grades K–2)? It’s most often read for its themes of identity, friendship, and belonging. 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 Yuna's Cardboard Castles

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How This Book Got Redgrades K–2
Shares themes of identity, friendship, and belonging, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–2).
Buffalo Fluffalogrades K–2
Shares themes of identity and friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–2).
Gibberishgrades K–3
Shares themes of friendship and belonging, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).
No Cats in the Librarygrades K–2
Shares themes of friendship and belonging, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–2).
You're So Amazing!grades K–2
Shares themes of identity and friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–2).
Corduroy600L
Shares themes of friendship and belonging, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).
A Mischief of Micegrades K–3
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).
I Lived Inside a Whalegrades K–3
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).
Just Like Milliegrades K–3
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).
Knight Owlgrades K–3
Shares themes of friendship, same genre (Picture Book), and overlapping grades (K–3).

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