11 must-read realistic fiction books like Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

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Keeping the Moon

By: Sarah Dessen

3.79

Format: None pages,

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here. Colie expects the worst when she's sent t…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Sophie & Carter

By: Chelsea Fine

3.82

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

** This is a novella ** While other high school seniors are dreaming about their futures, Sophie a… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Fine's Sophie & Carter book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults"

-Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter

"She just keeps kissing my scars. Every scar. She knows about them all. She watched them all appear and heal. Sophie's lips against me make every punch, every kick, every wound, every scar worth it."

-Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter

"They’re not really homes. More like houses where we sleep. Where we eat—if we’re lucky. Where we cry and fight. Where we bleed and break. Where we cower and scream. Where we give up. Where we sigh. W…"

-Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter

"Love. Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio. The real kind. The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres. The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish. The ki…"

-Chelsea Fine, Sophie & Carter

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2. Forever...

By: Judy Blume

3.63

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Forever... book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

-Judy Blume, Forever...

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3. Two-Way Street

By: Lauren Barnholdt

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

There are two sides to every breakup. This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they w… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Barnholdt's Two-Way Street book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"Or maybe I, like, cuddle raped him or something."

-Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street

"Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney"

-Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street

"Emotional attachments are messy. They end with broken hearts and stalking."

-Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street

"When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt."

-Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street

Cover of Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1) by Angie Stanton

4. Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1)

By: Angie Stanton

3.78

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

One day while watching the Interstate exit for her dad’s long awaited return, Libby’s life is rocke… read more

Similar categories in Angie Stanton's Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1) book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"So tell me about your dreams?"

-Angie Stanton, Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1)

"If not, well, Libby didn't care anymore. She'd turn 17 in a few months, and that was practically 18"

-Angie Stanton, Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1)

"It was time to stand up for herself and move forward, not cower in submission as other people made bad decisions for her."

-Angie Stanton, Rock and a Hard Place (The Jamieson Collection, #1)

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5. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

By: Deb Caletti

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Right away I got that Something About To Happen feeling. Right away I knew he was bad, and that it … read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's Honey, Baby, Sweetheart book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss."

-Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

"Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was."

-Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

"We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth."

-Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

"I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center."

-Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Cover of Keep Holding On by Susane Colasanti

6. Keep Holding On

By: Susane Colasanti

3.84

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild award-winning novel about the consequences of bullying and suicide. Noelle's… read more

Similar categories in Susane Colasanti's Keep Holding On book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
"Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care."

-Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

"If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?"

-Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

"How cool would it be if differences were celebrated? And the more different you were, the better?"

-Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

"No two people can see the world in the same way. No matter what you’re looking at, no one is seeing it the same way you are."

-Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On

Cover of Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

7. Keeping the Moon

By: Sarah Dessen

3.79

Format: None pages,

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here. Colie expects the worst when she's sent t… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
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8. North of Beautiful

By: Justina Chen

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wa… read more

Similar categories in Justina Chen's North of Beautiful book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
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9. Aces Up

By: Lauren Barnholdt

4.04

Format: None pages,

Seventeen-year-old high school senior Shannon Card needs money. And lots of it. She's been admitted… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Barnholdt's Aces Up book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
Cover of The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

10. The Distance Between Us

By: Kasie West

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and aft… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's The Distance Between Us book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
Cover of All-American Girl (All-American Girl, #1) by Meg Cabot

11. All-American Girl (All-American Girl, #1)

By: Meg Cabot

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in … read more

Similar categories in Meg Cabot's All-American Girl (All-American Girl, #1) book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
Cover of Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe

12. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of Waiting for You by Susane Colasanti

13. Waiting for You

By: Susane Colasanti

3.29

Format: 80 pages,

At the beginning of her sophomore year, Marisa is ready for a fresh start and, more importantly, a … read more

Similar categories in Susane Colasanti's Waiting for You book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • chick lit

14. My Life Next Door

By: Huntley Fitzpatrick

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garret… read more

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15. When It Happens

By: Susane Colasanti

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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16. The Cupcake Queen

By: Heather Hepler

4.00

Format: 212 pages,

New York City Population 8,200,000 Hog's Hollow Population 5,134 Fish-Out-of-Waterville Population … read more

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17. Something Like Fate

By: Susane Colasanti

3.23

Format: 218 pages,

Lani and Erin are bonded for life. One thing that connects them is their fascination of fate. Lani … read more

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18. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #4)

By: Ann Brashares

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious sum… read more

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19. I Like Him, He Likes Her (Alice, #13-15)

By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Find a Penny pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck...except, of course, if that Penny i… read more

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20. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3)

By: Ann Brashares

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

"A fun and poignant coming-of-age story," declared Entertainment Weeklyof the third novel in the #1… read more

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21. From Manchester to the Arctic

By: Sheena Billett

4.31

Format: 261 pages, ebook

In the challenging but rapidly changing 1970s, Connie Sanders, a broken-hearted nurse, flees to the… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Billett's From Manchester to the Arctic book and Sarah Dessen's Keeping the Moon

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground."

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell whe…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"It was almost 3 a.m. before Connie got into bed. Sipping cocoa in the cold daylight and listening to the silence, only punctuated by the distant barking of dogs, she began to wonder what she had done…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

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Forever...

Judy Blume

3.63

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Two-Way Street

Lauren Barnholdt

3.78

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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Deb Caletti

3.56

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Keep Holding On

Susane Colasanti

3.84

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The Boy Most Likely To

Huntley Fitzpatrick

3.94

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Second Chance Summer

Morgan Matson

4.12

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The Heartbreakers (The Heartbreakers Chronicles, #1)

Ali Novak

4.26

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Save the Date

Morgan Matson

5.00

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