8 Top realistic fiction books like Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick

Cover of Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick

Truly, Madly, Sheeply

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

4.17

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes face a pumpkin snatcher and a haunted farm in the fourth and final c…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

By: Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street and ready for an adventure! But the adventure they… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"I got a C because she has no imagination. Who cares about writing essays, anyway, when you can write stories?"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after a long, painful silence. "Of course, at the time I was pretending to be a casual passerby and not a…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

"[The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice…"

-Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

2. Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

By: Sheryl Berk , Bethany Hamilton , Rick Bundschuh

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that d… read more

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Cover of The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) by Karina Yan Glaser

3. The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling Vanderbeeker family finds love and hope in hard times as they face the challenge of… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead

4.14

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's The Lost Library book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
"But aren’t “parents"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"That delicious book smell, his heart said."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"

-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

5. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Cover of Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) by Dan Gemeinhart

6. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

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7. Top Story (Front Desk, #5)

By: Kelly Yang

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Front Desk series continues! Mia Tang is at the top of her game! … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Top Story (Front Desk, #5) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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9. Leeva at Last

By: Sara Pennypacker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tale about a precocious girl who transforms her community in surprising ways. What are people … read more

Similar categories in Sara Pennypacker's Leeva at Last book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Olivetti by Allie Millington

10. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

Similar categories in Allie Millington's Olivetti book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

11. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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12. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant (Beacon Bakeshop #4) by Darci Hannah

13. Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant (Beacon Bakeshop #4)

By: Darci Hannah

4.10

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Darci Hannah’s delicious Beacon Bakeshop Mystery series set in small-town… read more

Similar categories in Darci Hannah's Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant (Beacon Bakeshop #4) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • holiday
  • cozy mystery
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of It Found Us by Lindsay Currie

14. It Found Us

By: Lindsay Currie

3.97

Format: 274 pages, None

From the author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White comes a new spooky mystery about a girl de… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's It Found Us book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • mystery
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick

15. Truly, Madly, Sheeply

By: Heather Vogel Frederick

4.17

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes face a pumpkin snatcher and a haunted farm in the fourth and final c… read more

Similar categories in Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • cozy mystery
  • young adult
  • holiday
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince (Emily Windsnap, #8) by Liz Kessler

16. Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince (Emily Windsnap, #8)

By: Liz Kessler

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Emily Windsnap ends up surrounded by pirates — and on a life-changing adventure — in the eighth ins… read more

Similar categories in Liz Kessler's Emily Windsnap and the Pirate Prince (Emily Windsnap, #8) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose (Enola Holmes, #9) by Nancy Springer

17. Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose (Enola Holmes, #9)

By: Nancy Springer

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer hiding from her older broth… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose (Enola Holmes, #9) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
Cover of Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1) by Kalyn Josephson

18. Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1)

By: Kalyn Josephson

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One magical inn, two kids with supernatural powers, and an ancient Celtic creature trying to destro… read more

Similar categories in Kalyn Josephson's Ravenfall (Ravenfall #1) book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie

19. The Girl in White

By: Lindsay Currie

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Sweet Molly once lived in Eastport Sweet Molly once loved the sea Sweet Molly lost Liam to the sh… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Girl in White book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • mystery
"Life doesn't always give us the choices we want. All we can do is make the best of things."

-Lindsay Currie, The Girl in White

"Speaking up for people who don’t have a voice is important...It's the right thing to do, even if it's hard."

-Lindsay Currie, The Girl in White

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20. The October Witches

By: Jennifer Claessen

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

There’s so much to love about October – Halloween, pumpkin everything and MAGIC. Especially magic. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Claessen's The October Witches book and Heather Vogel Frederick's Truly, Madly, Sheeply

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • halloween
  • fiction
  • mystery

18 Top fiction books like Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick

Transform Your Habits

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (The Penderwicks, #2)

Jeanne Birdsall

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers, #7)

Karina Yan Glaser

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Library

Rebecca Stead

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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Transform Your Habits

The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)

Laurie R. King

4.41

Transform Your Habits

A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Murder at the Dinner Party (Cleopatra Fox, #8)

C.J. Archer

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)

Rhys Bowen

4.14

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