16 Top realistic fiction books like The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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The Summer of Broken Things

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.52

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is kno…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

1. Counting by 7s

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, … read more

Similar categories in Holly Goldberg Sloan's Counting by 7s book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"books=comfort"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

Cover of Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1) by Jenna Evans Welch

2. Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

“I made the wrong choice.” Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You're the one I like. Maybe love."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"And why did he have to call me “quiet"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"„O viaţă fară dragoste e ca un an fară vară."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"One day with Hadley was easily worth a lifetime in Italy."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

Cover of Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch

3. Love & Luck

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt's over-the-top destination wedding, and hoping she can stop … read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Luck book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • travel
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Goodbye, Perfect

By: Sara Barnard

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

When I was wild, you were steady . . . Now you are wild - what am I? Eden McKinley knows she can't… read more

Similar categories in Sara Barnard's Goodbye, Perfect book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1)

By: Julie Halpern

3.72

Format: 78 pages,

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Similar categories in Julie Halpern's Get Well Soon (Anna Bloom, #1) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Tell Me Three Things

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that's what it feels like during her first week of juni… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Tell Me Three Things book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Eight Keys

By: Suzanne LaFleur

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Elise and Franklin have always been best friends. Elise has always lived in the big house with her … read more

Similar categories in Suzanne LaFleur's Eight Keys book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

8. Invincible (Invincible, #1)

By: Amy Reed

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Fault in Our Starsmeets Go Ask Alicein this dramatic romance about a teenage girl who survives … read more

Similar categories in Amy Reed's Invincible (Invincible, #1) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

9. The Running Dream

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning and inspiring novel. When Jessica's dreams are shattered, she puts herself back to… read more

Similar categories in Wendelin Van Draanen's The Running Dream book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

10. The Game of Lives (The Mortality Doctrine, #3)

By: James Dashner

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Michael used to live to game. Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago… read more

Similar categories in James Dashner's The Game of Lives (The Mortality Doctrine, #3) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

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11. Hope and Other Punchlines

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every othe… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Hope and Other Punchlines book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Promchanted

By: Morgan Matson

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. Stella Griffin doesn’t b… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Promchanted book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Whenever I tried to wear a low ponytail, I inevitably looked like a Founding Father. And not the attractive ones, like Hamilton."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"Promise,' Nisha had agreed. She'd held out her pinky and we'd linked them to get and shaken, entering what every fourth-grader knows is a binding contract."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"If you like someone, I realized in one incandescent flash, you liked them in a disgusting dungeon next to a literal pile of bones. You liked them everywhere. Because it wasn't about the setting-it wa…"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"You can't stop people from things that hurt and are hard, Stella. You can't reroute to avoid pain at all costs. You can't plan your way around everything. Sometimes, you just have to go through with …"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

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13. Sunkissed

By: Kasie West

3.81

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Will the stars align? Avery has always used music as an escape. But after her best friend betray… read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Sunkissed book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He gave me a slow smile. 'If she likes me back, she probably doesn't do a lot of thinking."

-Kasie West, Sunkissed

Cover of The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1) by Hannah   Reynolds

14. The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

By: Hannah Reynolds

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summery romance set in Nantucket that follows seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg as she uncovers … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Reynolds's The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1) book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Do you miss him? When you spend so much time with someone, it's impossible not to."

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

"Light, air, and faint classical music filled the store. My shoulders relaxed. I breathed easier in a room full of books, as if the paper retained the capacity of the trees they'd once been. So many b…"

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

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15. Dress Coded

By: Carrie Firestone

4.17

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Firestone's Dress Coded book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"

-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

Cover of The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix

16. The Summer of Broken Things

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.52

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is kno… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • travel
  • spain
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of We Regret to Inform You by Ariel Kaplan

17. We Regret to Inform You

By: Ariel Kaplan

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Library Binding

Mischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application … read more

Similar categories in Ariel Kaplan's We Regret to Inform You book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. When We Had Summer

By: Jennifer Castle

3.55

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in this new young adult nove… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Castle's When We Had Summer book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Why Would I Lie?

By: Adi Rule

3.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about a charismatic, sociopathic valedictorian . . . and the o… read more

Similar categories in Adi Rule's Why Would I Lie? book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of A Shot at Normal by Marisa Reichardt

20. A Shot at Normal

By: Marisa Reichardt

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Villapando told me to get a good attorney. He wasn't serious. But I am. I'm going to sue my par… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Reichardt's A Shot at Normal book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Girls of July by Alex Flinn

21. Girls of July

By: Alex Flinn

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly comes a contemporary novel about four comp… read more

Similar categories in Alex Flinn's Girls of July book and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Summer of Broken Things

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it."

-Alex Flinn, Girls of July

"Before she came here, she'd thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could -- but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return."

-Alex Flinn, Girls of July

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Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

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Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

Jenna Evans Welch

4.04

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Jenna Evans Welch

4.11

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Sara Barnard

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Brian Selznick , Andrew Clements

3.77

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April Henry

4.00

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W. Bruce Cameron

3.82

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