9 Best realistic fiction books like Losers Bracket by Chris Crutcher

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Losers Bracket

By: Chris Crutcher

3.65

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

When a family argument turns into an urgent hunt for a missing child, seventeen-year-old Annie Boot…

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1. Jumped

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

3.43

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The wrong angle "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely… read more

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  • high school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. What You Left Behind

By: Jessica Verdi

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

It’s all Ryden’s fault. If he hadn’t gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped her chemo tr… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Verdi's What You Left Behind book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • high school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery --- It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn't blow it."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

"I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon. I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I’m not here anymore."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

"Why does everything have to suck so bad? Even when you think it's getting better, it's not. Life's building up suckiness, getting ready to hit you again, at the worst possible moment."

-Jessica Verdi, What You Left Behind

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3. The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

By: Louis Sachar

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, com… read more

Similar categories in Louis Sachar's The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"I once had a teacher who told me I'd be twice as smart if I was half as smart as I thought I was. I'm still trying to figure that one out."

-Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

"I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll mak…"

-Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

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4. The Serpent King

By: Jeff Zentner

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minist… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's The Serpent King book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Deenie

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of th… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Deenie book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. White Cat (Curse Workers, #1)

By: Holly Black

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

Cassel comes from a family of curse workers: people who have the power to change your emotions, you… read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's White Cat (Curse Workers, #1) book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • fiction
  • young adult

7. Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

The compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos--and herself--from a violent coup. T… read more

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8. Threatened (Ape Quartet #2)

By: Eliot Schrefer

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Into the jungle. Into the wild. Into harm's way. When he was a boy, Luc's mother would warn him abo… read more

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9. Then Again, Maybe I Won't

By: Judy Blume

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Grade 6-10 When his hardworking inventor father strikes it rich and moves the family from working c… read more

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10. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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11. Snapdragon

By: Kat Leyh

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
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12. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Martín's Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • family
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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13. Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Brandy Colbert

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and leg… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Colbert's Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • audiobook
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14. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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15. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Losers Bracket

By: Chris Crutcher

3.65

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

When a family argument turns into an urgent hunt for a missing child, seventeen-year-old Annie Boot… read more

Similar categories in Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • high school
  • teen
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • sports
  • audiobook
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17. The Dearly Beloved

By: Cara Wall

4.07

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are … read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
""

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"She would never be free again. But she would also never be alone."

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"This minister, a small, balding, quick-spoken man, said often that faith, at its simplest, was the acceptance of the possibility that things one had never seen could be real."

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

"Nan had known, as a child, that God did not answer prayers for more candy or new shoes. Those were worldly things, not sacred. God answered prayers about being a better friend, or being able to get a…"

-Cara Wall, The Dearly Beloved

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18. It Won't Always Be Like This

By: Malaka Gharib

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more

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  • coming of age
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19. Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

3.96

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHO’S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN… When her whole life collapsed, Rae still… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1) book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Is my mother right?"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"I love you as a knife loves a throat,"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"An anti-hero was just a villain with good PR"

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

"Key shrugged. “If you ask me, she’s too good for him."

-Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)

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20. Throwback

By: Maurene Goo

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American … read more

Similar categories in Maurene Goo's Throwback book and Chris Crutcher's Losers Bracket

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Fast Pitch

By: Nic Stone

4.09

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Clean Getaway, comes a challenging and he… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • audiobook

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4.25

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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