Beta

Wrecking Ball Alternatives—
Suggestions for What to Read Next

Wrecking Ball
New Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
El Deafo
Inside Out & Back Again

Recommended

    chapter • 249 Pages
    New Kid
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jerry Craft
    chapter • 218 Pages
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    4.5
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jeff Kinney
    chapter • 233 Pages
    El Deafo
    Graphic Nov.
    Cece Bell
    chapter • 262 Pages
    Inside Out & Back Again
    Series
    Thanhha Lai
    chapter • 215 Pages
    Roller Girl
    Graphic Nov.
    Victoria Jamieson
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Four Eyes
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Rex Ogle, Dave Valeza
    chapter • 192 Pages
    Invisible Emmie
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Terri Libenson
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Rowley Jefferson's Journal (Graphic Novel)
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jeff Kinney
    chapter • 232 Pages
    Middle School Misadventures
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
     
    chapter • 192 Pages
    This Is Not a Drill
    K.A. Holt, K. A. Holt
    chapter • 224 Pages
    The Crossover (Graphic Novel)
    6.5
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile
    chapter • 240 Pages
    The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
    Kate DiCamillo, Bagram Ibatoulline
    View more

Books about friendship

    chapter • 224 Pages
    Andi Unexpected
    5.0
    #1 in Series
    Amanda Flower
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Ninth Ward
    #1 in Series
    Jewell Parker Rhodes
    chapter • 224 Pages
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    6.5
    #1 in Series
     
    chapter • 224 Pages
    The Crossover (Graphic Novel)
    6.5
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Kwame Alexander, Dawud Anyabwile
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Willow Moss & the Lost Day
    6.0
    Series
    Dominique Valente
    chapter • 208 Pages
    Ghost
    6.0
    #1 in Series
    Jason Reynolds
    chapter • 251 Pages
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    6.0
    E.B. White, Fred Marcellino
    chapter • 247 Pages
    The Girl & the Galdurian
    6.0
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Tim Probert
    chapter • 249 Pages
    New Kid
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jerry Craft
    chapter • 253 Pages
    The Magic Misfits
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Neil Patrick Harris, Lissy Marlin, Kyle Hilton
    chapter • 192 Pages
    The Animal Rescue Agency
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Eliot Schrefer
    chapter • 240 Pages
    The Terrible Two
    5.5
    Series
    Mac Barnett, Jory John, Kevin Cornell
    View more

Books about growing up

    chapter • 249 Pages
    New Kid
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jerry Craft
    chapter • 240 Pages
    The Indian in the Cupboard
    5.4
    #1 in Series
    Lynne Reid Banks
    chapter • 262 Pages
    A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
    #1 in Series
    Jeanne Birdsall
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Moon Shadow
    Erin Downing
    chapter • 262 Pages
    Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
    Series
    Dusti Bowling
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Where the Watermelons Grow
    Cindy Baldwin
    chapter • 240 Pages
    Peter Pan and Wendy
    Series
    J. M. Barrie
    chapter • 208 Pages
    Blubber
    Judy Blume
    chapter • 248 Pages
    Squished
    Graphic Nov.
    Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter
    chapter • 208 Pages
    Marshfield Dreams
    Series
    Ralph Fletcher
    chapter • 215 Pages
    Roller Girl
    Graphic Nov.
    Victoria Jamieson
    chapter • 216 Pages
    Besties: Work It Out
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino, Kristina Luu
    View more

More books by Jeff Kinney with a similar difficulty

Trending books

    chapter • 233 Pages
    Holes
    5.1
    #1 in Series
    Louis Sachar, Vladimir Radunsky, Bagram Ibatoulline
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Restart
    Gordon Korman
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Wish
    Barbara O'Connor
    chapter • 247 Pages
    A Wrinkle in Time
    4.6
    #1 in Series
    Madeleine L'Engle
    chapter • 224 Pages
    The Dragonet Prophecy (Graphic Novel)
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Tui T. Sutherland, Mike Holmes
    chapter • 224 Pages
    An Elephant in the Garden
    Michael Morpurgo
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Smile
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Raina Telgemeier
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Ghosts
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Raina Telgemeier
    chapter • 254 Pages
    The Bronze Bow
    Elizabeth George Speare
    chapter • 245 Pages
    Bud, Not Buddy
    6.0
    Christopher Paul Curtis
    chapter • 233 Pages
    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
    4.5
    #1 in Series
    Robert C. O'Brien, Zena Bernstein
    chapter • 192 Pages
    Freak the Mighty
    #1 in Series
    Rodman Philbrick
    View more

Books about middle school

    chapter • 249 Pages
    New Kid
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jerry Craft
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Shine!
    5.5
    J.J. Grabenstein, Chris Grabenstein
    chapter • 240 Pages
    Sort of Super
    5.5
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Eric Gapstur
    chapter • 192 Pages
    Way of the Warrior Kid
    5.5
    Series
    Jocko Willink, Jon Bozak
    chapter • 192 Pages
    Fuzzy Mud
    5.3
    Louis Sachar
    chapter • 192 Pages
    Lost and Found
    5.0
    Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott
    chapter • 218 Pages
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    4.5
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jeff Kinney
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Restart
    Gordon Korman
    chapter • 208 Pages
    What Stars Are Made of
    Sarah Allen
    chapter • 256 Pages
    Squint
    Graphic Nov.
    Chad Morris, Shelly Brown
    chapter • 264 Pages
    The Wednesday Wars
    Gary D. Schmidt
    chapter • 228 Pages
    The Meaning of Maggie
    Megan Jean Sovern
    View more

Books about adolescence

    chapter • 208 Pages
    Ghost
    6.0
    #1 in Series
    Jason Reynolds
    chapter • 218 Pages
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    4.5
    #1 in Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Jeff Kinney
    chapter • 224 Pages
    Frizzy
    Graphic Nov.
    Claribel A. Ortega, Rose Bousamra
    chapter • 224 Pages
    From the Top
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Lincoln Peirce
    chapter • 214 Pages
    Big Nate: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    Series
    Graphic Nov.
    Lincoln Peirce
    chapter • 240 Pages
    Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
    Niki Lenz
    chapter • 224 Pages
    All the Ways Home
    Elsie Chapman
    chapter • 240 Pages
    The Girl with More Than One Heart
    Laura Geringer Bass

Classics

    chapter • 191 Pages
    Mary Poppins
    5.3
    #1 in Series
    P. L. Travers, P. L. Travers, Mary Shepard
    chapter • 240 Pages
    Peter Pan and Wendy
    Series
    J. M. Barrie
    chapter • 264 Pages
    The Wind in the Willows
     
    chapter • 224 Pages
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    6.5
    #1 in Series
     
    chapter • 251 Pages
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    6.0
    E.B. White, Fred Marcellino
    chapter • 209 Pages
    The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
    5.9
    Julie Andrews Edwards
    chapter • 190 Pages
    The Book of Three
    5.8
    #1 in Series
    Lloyd Alexander
    chapter • 180 Pages
    The Tower Treasure
    5.5
    #1 in Series
    Franklin W. Dixon
    chapter • 240 Pages
    Bed-Knob and Broomstick
    5.5
    Mary Norton, Erik Blegvad
    chapter • 240 Pages
    The Indian in the Cupboard
    5.4
    #1 in Series
    Lynne Reid Banks
    chapter • 208 Pages
    The Magician's Nephew
    5.0
    #1 in Series
    C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes
    chapter • 256 Pages
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer
    View more

Bookroo

Book Clubs

Book Store

Schools

Book Platform

Authors & Illustrators

Follow Bookroo

© 2025 Bookroo
Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy