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Book List by Setting
Book Recommendations by Setting are only listed here if the setting informs the plot in a noticeable way.
Many English books for middle grade readers have plots that could happen in multiple U.S. or Canadian locations, so they are not included on this list. |
Africa Asia Australia/Oceania Europe Canada Mexico/Caribbean
Northeast U.S. Midwest U.S. Southeast U.S. Southwest U.S. Western U.S. - California, Alaska, Hawaii
Outer Space Under Water Alternative Past/Medieval Setting
Northeast U.S. Midwest U.S. Southeast U.S. Southwest U.S. Western U.S. - California, Alaska, Hawaii
Outer Space Under Water Alternative Past/Medieval Setting
Please click each title for an individual book summary and review, with a list of topics and themes, awards, and related book recommendations.
Africa
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Her Own Two Feet (Rwanda and Austin, Texas)
Home of the Brave (Sudan and Minnesota) I Will Always Write Back (Zimbabwe and Pennsylvania) Listening for Lions (East Africa - Kenya, and Britain) A Long Walk to Water (Sudan) Endangered (Ape Quartet #1 - Congo) Escape Under the Forever Sky (Ethiopia) Home of the Brave Orphaned (Ape Quartet #4 - Great Rift Valley) The Other Side of Truth (Nigeria, Britain) The Red Pencil (Sudan) Threatened (Ape Quartet #2 - Gabon) |
Asia
Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Burma/
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India
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Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood
Boys Without Names Climbing the Stairs Keeping Corner The Night Diary (also Pakistan) Same Sun Here (with NYC & Kentucky) Saraswati's Way Secret Keeper Thirst A Time to Dance You Bring the Distant Near (with NJ, NY, and London) |
Korea
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Palestine
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Vietnam
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Australia, Oceania
Europe
Denmark
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France
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Germany
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Italy
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Kazakhstan |
Lithuania
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Poland
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Russia / USSR
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The U.K.
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North America
Canada
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Mexico, Caribbean, Central America
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The Black Pearl
Esperanza Rising I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Northern Mexico and Chicago) Morning Girl Take Me to the River |
United States:
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Anger is a Gift - Oakland, CA
Chasing Secrets - San Francisco Checked - CA Echo (part three) The 57 Bus - Oakland, CA Front Desk - CA The Higher Power of Lucky - CA The Honest Truth The House That Lou Built - San Francisco I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor - Hawaii Incommunicado - Oregon One Crazy Summer - CA Outrun the Moon - San Francisco |
Paint the Wind
Piecing Me Together (Portland, OR) The Porcupine of Truth (Montana) Some Kind of Courage Song for a Whale (Alaska, +Houston, TX) Stone Fox - Wyoming Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave - CA Under a Painted Sky - The Oregon Trail We Are Okay - San Francisco, CA (and NYC) When You Trap a Tiger - Washington State |
United States: Midwest
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Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen (Kansas City, MO and Kansas)
Blue Jasmine (Iowa) Chasing Vermeer (Chicago) The First Rule of Punk (Chicago from Florida) Go Big or Go Home (South Dakota) Home of the Brave (Minnesota and Sudan) I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Chicago) Little House series (various states) Mascot (St. Louis) One Came Home (Wisconsin) Sarah, Plain and Tall The Westing Game (Wisconsin) |
United States: Northeast
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New York City
Allegedly From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Grandmaster The Great Shelby Holmes The Long Ride New Kid Nine, Ten: A September 11th Story Same Sun Here (with India & Kentucky) The Schwa Was Here Some Places More Than Others (+ Oregon) Sparrow Towers Falling Uprising We Are Okay (and California) You Bring the Distant Near (and NJ, India) |
Other Northeast U.S. Locations
Dead End in Norvelt (Pennsylvania) Echo (part two - Philadelphia) Framed! (D.C.) Half a Chance (New Hampshire) A Handful of Stars (Maine) The Next Great Paulie Fink (Vermont) The President's Daughter (Boston/D.C.) The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Connecticut) |
United States: Southeast
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Caterpillar Summer (NC - Gingerbread Is.)
A Gift of Magic (Florida) Golden Girl (Atlanta, with Pakistan) Inside Out and Back Again (Alabama) Jefferson's Sons (Virginia) Kira-Kira (Georgia) Liberty Porter, First Daughter (White House - Washington, D.C.) The Lies We Tell Ourselves (Virginia) Lily and Dunkin (Florida) The Lions of Little Rock (Arkansas) |
Ninth Ward (Louisiana)
Same Sun Here (Kentucky, with NYC & India) Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere (Louisiana) The Underneath (Louisiana/Texas) Woof (Louisiana) |
United States: Southwest
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Esperanza Rising
Flygirl (Sweetwater, TX and New Orleans) Holes Out of the Dust Song for a Whale (Houston; +Alaska) Sing Down the Moon Stargirl |
