Books like My brother Sammy by Becky Edwards

In Camp Green Lake, a boy named Stanley Yelnats must dig endless holes for a supposedly reformatory camp that really hides a buried truth.

When ten‑year‑old Opal arrives in Naomi, Florida, she discovers friendship, community, and the healing power of a big ugly dog named Winn‑Dixie during her first summer in town.

Ivan, a gorilla who has lived behind glass in a shopping‑mall circus for 27 years, learns new meaning for art and friendship when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives.

Eleven-year-old Melody, a girl with cerebral palsy and a photographic memory, cannot speak, walk, or write. Living inside her thoughts, she discovers a way to finally speak out, challenging the world’s assumptions about her abilities.

When an eccentric new student named Stargirl arrives at Mica Area High School, her vibrant individuality challenges the school’s strict norm of conformity, sparking a tense battle with popularity and a budding first love for classmate Leo.

A nine‑year‑old girl named Ada escapes her abusive home amid World War II, joining her brother in London’s evacuation; she learns to ride a pony, reads, and finds a new family with Susan Smith while watching for German spies.

Follow seven fifth-graders through a lively year at Snow Hill School as they navigate friendships, family, and the surprises a new teacher brings into their lives.

A 12‑year‑old boy named Moose relocates to Alcatraz Island in 1935 with his family, where the guards’ families live in the prison’s residential quarters. He must navigate the island’s unique setting while caring for his autistic sister.

An apprentice alchemist seeks the help of his despised kid brother who can make him the size of a peanut while concocting a potion.

A young boy learns to communicate with his autistic brother through family therapy and understanding.

"Sam was absolutely fearless," said Robin Williams. "Most people go to the edge and then stop. Not Sam. He'd see the edge and then just keep going. And I think that scream he was famous for was just the sound he made on his way down." Sam Kinison was Lenny Bruce at warp speed. He was not only beyond hip, he was beyond gonzo. He was a white Richard Pryor; a preacher-turned-comedian; a primal screamer who shrieked for our sins. He was known as the "rock and roll comic" - a burly, volatile high-wire act, calculated to offend, demolishing taboos on national television with brute force. When he lost his life in April 1992 at the age of thirty-eight, behind the wheel of a sports car east of Los Angeles, many of his fans didn't know about his past. The most successful comic of the 1980s was the son of a poor Illinois preacher - an unhappy child from a torn, dysfunctional family, plagued by low self-esteem and fated for disappointment. This first full account of Kinison's whiplashing life is written by the person who lived closest to its subject - Sam's brother, Bill Kinison, a traveling preacher for seventeen years who gave up his vocation to manage Sam's comedy career. Bill covers Sam's checkered early years (Sam, too, spent years as a fire-and-brimstone preacher); his sudden ascent to fame in 1985 and flamboyant life in show business; his personal struggles with liquor, drugs and sexual excess; and the feelings of a brother doomed to take care of a brother born to raise hell. Along the road to stardom the brothers Kinison associated with Hollywood's A list, and Kinison reveals all the compromising positions and rancorous run-ins. Among the supporting cast: Arsenio Hall, Andrew Dice Clay, Elton John, Howard Stern, Lorne Michaels, Mike Ovitz, Robin Williams, David Letterman, Penny Marshall, Eddie Murphy, and a legion of rockstars, groupies, dealers, and leeches. Kinison's outrageous comic sense and his flash-burning career symbolized the out-of-control 1980s; his fame rested on his wildness, his unaccountability. His short, haywire, supremely self-indulgent, and ultimately self-destructive life makes John Belushi's sound tempered and innocent.

A young brother's journey as he faces the challenges of living in the foster-care system and a family of his own making in Little League baseball.

Midge’s whole world was comprised of her father, her childhood friend Kate and her beloved Peter, whom one day she would marry. And then, quite suddenly, her world was turned upside down, and it seemed as if nothing could ever again be right for her. Even her beautiful old home, Windswept, was taken over by a group of doctors, and turned into a home for convalescent children. Midge did find happiness again, ultimately, but in a way that she would never have dreamed of. And a little boy, Sammy, had a large part to play in this re-shaping of Midge’s life.

A heartfelt coming‑of‑age story in which a young girl shares life with her autistic twin brother, exploring the joys and challenges of siblinghood and communication.

Ben's traumatic brain injury in the Iraq War leaves him a shell of his former self, forced to confront his shattered memories of a world he no longer recognizes.

Jonno, bullied for being the older brother, learns unexpected lessons when his younger sibling, James, is sent to a school for autistic children, forcing him to confront prejudice, family dynamics, and self‑acceptance.

When Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he vanishes into the city’s polluted slum, where water‑borne toxins transform its inhabitants. Paul must uncover the dark secret and save his brother before the waters claim them both.

Afterward follows thirteen-year‑old Dylan Anderson as he and his family navigate the aftermath of his kidnapping, uncovering a deeper family secret and a friendship that may reveal the truth behind his missing brother Ethan.