Outcasts in Children's Fiction

Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Searching
• Crow is an outcast in her community because people believe she is an orphan from a leper colony. 

Beyond the Laughing Sky by Michelle Cuevas

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Science, Research, Starting Middle School
• Nashville was hatched from an egg and looks like part bird, part boy. 

The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Words, In Verse, Only Child, Starting Middle School, Teachers/Librarians
• Bea starts seventh grade as an outcast after an embarrassing incident at an end-of-summer party.

Be Prepared by Vera Brogsol

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Graphic Novel
• See also: Nature, Summer Vacation 
• Vera begs to go to Russian summer camp because she thinks she'll finally fit in there, but she's the youngest girl in her group and gets left out anyway.

You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Divorce, Starting Middle School, Multiple Narrators, Word Lovers
• Neither Ben nor Charlotte have friends at their new middle school. 

The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner

• Pub Date: 2019
• Grades 4-7 interest 
• Graphic Novel 
• See also: Mothers and Daughters, Single Parents 
• Moth doesn't fit in and then she finds out she's a witch.