Books like The house of djinn by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Three teenagers from different eras and continents embark on perilous journeys to escape war, persecution, and tyranny, each facing drowning, bombings and betrayal, yet their stories converge, showing that hope endures across time and borders.

When the Taliban seize Kabul, 11‑year‑old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner and survive the harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Callie Vee Tate grows up in Fentress, Texas, where she balances family expectations and a love of animals. A boyhood full of stray dogs, armadillos, and a skeptical mother, she learns whether her dream of veterinary medicine will come true.

Teenage tomboy Charlie unexpectedly becomes a makeup model, thrusting her into a new social scene where flirtation and gender expectations challenge her single‑parent family and sibling relationships in California.

When thirteen‑year‑old Callie nurses a broken‑winged butterfly and delivers a baby lamb in 1901 rural Texas, her mother’s disapproval of her "unladylike" kindness sparks a quiet tale of family, nature, and growing up.

An 11‑year‑old nomadic girl in Pakistan’s Cholistan Desert faces a forced betrothal that tests family loyalty, tradition, and her own desires.

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family's life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.From the Hardcover edition.

413 pages ; 23 cm

Twelve‑year‑old Spring Pearl, an orphan in Guangzhou, uses her literacy and boyish courage to help her adopted family survive the 1857 Opium War.

In a Bangladeshi village, ten‑year‑old Naimi must disguise herself as a boy to help her family earn money through her talent for painting alpanas.

In the tense setting of the West Bank, a trapped boy and a surprisingly sentient cat must navigate the rift between ordinary life and the looming conflict between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian villagers.