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Love, Aubrey Readalikes This is a collection of books compiled from a request on LM_NET. Thanks to those librarians for this help! This list still needs to be refined & reformatted.

Love, Aubrey by Waiting for Normal by leslie connor Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant Out of my Mind Sharon Draper Milo, Sticky Notes, and Brain Freeze by Alan Silberberg Abbott, Tony. Firegirl. Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. Appelt, Kathi. The Underneath. Armstrong, William H. Sounder. Bauer, Joan. Hope Was Here. Byars, Betsy. Summer of the Swans. Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal. Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog. Creech, Sharon. Ruby Holler. Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons. Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. DiCamillo, Kate. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl. Giff, Patricia Reilly. Pictures of Hollis Woods. Hannigan, Katherine. Ida B.--: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, & (Possibly) Save the World. Henkes, Kevin. Olive?s Ocean. Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. Klise, Kate. Grounded Millard, Glenda. The Naming of Tishkin Silk. Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. Nicholls, Sally. Ways to Live Forever. O'Connor, Barbara. How to Steal a Dog. Park, Barbara. Mick Harte Was Here. Park, Barbara. The Graduation of Jake Moon. Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko. Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May. Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. Shafer, Audrey. The Mailbox. Smith, Doris Buchanon. A Taste of Blackberries. Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Weeks, Sarah. So B. It. Wood, June Rae. The Man Who Loved Clowns. Yolen, Jane. The Devil?s Arithmetic. Eight Keys by LaFleur A Mango-Shaped Space I'll Sing You One-O; Every Soul a Star The Other Half of My Heart Wenny Has Wings By Janet Lee Carey Heart of a Shepherd by Roseanne Parry Kira, Kira Pictures of Hollis Woods The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood

You can search more tear jerker books on abookandahug...if you go to abookandahug, then click on the Search box in the upper right hand corner... under reading level either click on Middle Reader or Older Reader depending on how mature you think your 5th graders are as readers and then scroll down to the keywords/searchable terms and click on "a tissue book."

Hit Search and you will generate a list of books.

The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood is also a tearjerker. It is about a girl who loses her parents in a car accident and she and her uncle who has Down Syndrome, go to live with her other uncle and aunt. The uncle's character (with Down Syndrome, Punky) is based on June Rae Wood's real brother, Richard. It is quite moving and also is a really good book about accepting the differences of others.