10 Top realistic fiction books like Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho

Cover of Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho

Salt and Sugar

By: Rebecca Carvalho

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The grandchildren of two rival Brazilian bakeries fall in love despite their families’ feud. Trust …

"She takes off as fast as Jessie and James getting kicked into the horizon at the end of every Pokémon episode."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"She takes off as fast as Jessie and James getting kicked into the horizon at the end of every Pokémon episode."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"The ruby guava melts into the cheesy corn cake looking like a flower sprouting in the sun-kissed earth. This is the best compromise between our families' bakeries. It's perfect ."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"The ruby guava melts into the cheesy corn cake looking like a flower sprouting in the sun-kissed earth. This is the best compromise between our families' bakeries. It's perfect ."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Lumara by Melissa Landers

1. Lumara

By: Melissa Landers

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The answers lie within. Boarding school student Talia Morris has no idea her boyfriend, Nathaniel,… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Landers's Lumara book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Charmed List

By: Julie Abe

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After spending most of high school as the quiet girl, Ellie Kobata is ready to take some risks and … read more

Similar categories in Julie Abe's The Charmed List book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"I brought some Honey & Butter."

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"And please, you know you’re cute."

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"But we can’t leave without a book,"

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

"Is that—is that the Enchanted Forest?"

-Julie Abe, The Charmed List

Cover of When You Wish Upon a Lantern by Gloria Chao

3. When You Wish Upon a Lantern

By: Gloria Chao

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Gloria Chao creates real-world magic in this luminous romance about teens who devo… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Chao's When You Wish Upon a Lantern book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto

4. Well, That Was Unexpected

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Well, That Was Unexpected book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
Cover of The Getaway List by Emma Lord

5. The Getaway List

By: Emma Lord

3.58

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last … read more

Similar categories in Emma Lord's The Getaway List book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"The longer I'm in New York, the more I get the impression that it isn't the shiny new universe I expected it to be. It's just the home of 100,000 little universes... that all exist rubbing up against…"

-Emma Lord, The Getaway List

Cover of Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove by Rati Mehrotra

6. Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

By: Rati Mehrotra

3.84

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

To learn what she can become, she must first discover who she is. Katyani’s role in the kingdom … read more

Similar categories in Rati Mehrotra's Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"You’ve got to learn how to kiss like that,"

-Rati Mehrotra, Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

"A spiritual warrior accepts his punishment with the same indifference that he accepts his reward."

-Rati Mehrotra, Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

"She would not cry in front of this man who had torn her world apart. She would wait for an opportunity and kill him."

-Rati Mehrotra, Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

"You were bringing me all those flowers when I was sick, like you were wooing me. How could my poor, weak heart resist?"

-Rati Mehrotra, Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove

Cover of Salt and Sugar by Rebecca Carvalho

7. Salt and Sugar

By: Rebecca Carvalho

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The grandchildren of two rival Brazilian bakeries fall in love despite their families’ feud. Trust … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • food
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"She takes off as fast as Jessie and James getting kicked into the horizon at the end of every Pokémon episode."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"The ruby guava melts into the cheesy corn cake looking like a flower sprouting in the sun-kissed earth. This is the best compromise between our families' bakeries. It's perfect ."

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"Bell pepper and onion skewers dripping with garlic hot sauce and a little lime. Chicken and steak skewers wrapped in bacon. And a side of farofa so we could dip the skewers and feel the crunch of kas…"

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

"Empadões sit behind the glass, the round, perfectly golden brown pot pies loaded with shredded chicken and green olives. People usually know what they want when they walk into our bakery. Five loaves…"

-Rebecca Carvalho, Salt and Sugar

Cover of What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

8. What Happened to Rachel Riley?

By: Claire Swinarski

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more

Similar categories in Claire Swinarski's What Happened to Rachel Riley? book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of We Still Belong by Christine  Day

9. We Still Belong

By: Christine Day

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Christine Day's We Still Belong book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. Dinged

By: Tommy Greenwald

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A star football player watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very sa… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Greenwald's Dinged book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Vengeful Souls by Kristi McManus

11. Our Vengeful Souls

By: Kristi McManus

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When magical mermaid Sereia saves her little sister and overshadows brother and rightful heir, Trit… read more

Similar categories in Kristi McManus's Our Vengeful Souls book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Melody by Joanna Davidson Politano

12. The Lost Melody

By: Joanna Davidson Politano

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Darkly premised and brilliantly presented. The Lost Melody serves a pitch-perfect blend of history… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Davidson Politano's The Lost Melody book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There is no such thing as hopeless cases. Only those who have lost hope."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

"When it came to darkness, you could succumb and let it consume you…or you could invade it with light of your own."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

"For all the locking up he’d done, all the patients he’d managed to control with cells and restraints, there was one thing those walls could not contain. Light."

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

"One cannot help staring at the light, eh? Especially when he’s been cowering in the shadows for so long…. Perhaps it’s time you quit choosing the darkness – quit lingering there. Whatever you believe…"

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Lost Melody

Cover of Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajan

13. Kismat Connection

By: Ananya Devarajan

3.42

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this charming YA debut, a girl who’s determined to prove her star chart wrong ropes her longtime… read more

Similar categories in Ananya Devarajan's Kismat Connection book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
"Did I deserve to be abandoned, then?"

-Ananya Devarajan, Kismat Connection

"He knew nothing and learned everything because no one else would do it for him"

-Ananya Devarajan, Kismat Connection

Cover of A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar

14. A Seed in the Sun

By: Aida Salazar

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for mi… read more

Similar categories in Aida Salazar's A Seed in the Sun book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of No One Leaves the Castle by Christopher Healy

15. No One Leaves the Castle

By: Christopher Healy

4.02

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The Lilac. The bard songs say that she’s the world’s most fearsome bounty hunter. That there’s no c… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Healy's No One Leaves the Castle book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1) by Kalynn  Bayron

16. The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1)

By: Kalynn Bayron

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the world of the Vanquishers, vampires were history . . . until now.Malika “Boog” Wilson and her… read more

Similar categories in Kalynn Bayron's The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1) book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • fiction
Cover of The Wrong Kind of Weird by James Ramos

17. The Wrong Kind of Weird

By: James Ramos

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Cameron Carson has a secret. A secret with the power to break apart his friend group.Cameron Carson… read more

Similar categories in James Ramos's The Wrong Kind of Weird book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • romance
  • young adult romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Christmas Witch (The Amberlight Valley Series) by Dalea Faulkner

18. The Christmas Witch (The Amberlight Valley Series)

By: Dalea Faulkner

2.59

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

If the only way to save your home town, was to partner with your middle school nemesis... would you… read more

Similar categories in Dalea Faulkner's The Christmas Witch (The Amberlight Valley Series) book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • young adult
Cover of Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) by Diana López

19. Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1)

By: Diana López

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have… read more

Similar categories in Diana López's Felice and the Wailing Woman (Los Monstruos #1) book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Virtually Me by Chad  Morris

20. Virtually Me

By: Chad Morris

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious package. A new school. A chance to be someone new. A new virtual reality school wh… read more

Similar categories in Chad Morris's Virtually Me book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Puttermans Are in the House by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

21. The Puttermans Are in the House

By: Jacquetta Nammar Feldman

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and hopeful middle grade novel from Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, author of the Junior Libr… read more

Similar categories in Jacquetta Nammar Feldman's The Puttermans Are in the House book and Rebecca Carvalho's Salt and Sugar

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult

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3.82

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