6 Top realistic fiction books like Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu

Cover of Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu

Boy, Everywhere

By: A.M. Dassu

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

BOY, EVERYWHERE is the debut middle grade novel from writer A. M. Dassu. It chronicles the harrowin…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goodfellow's The Final Year book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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2. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

Similar categories in Hiba Noor Khan's Safiyyah's War book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Tyger

By: S.F. Said

4.17

Format: 304 pages, None

In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Said's Tyger book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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4. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

Similar categories in Meg Eden Kuyatt's Good Different book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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5. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. When Life Gives You Mangos

By: Kereen Getten

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story about a young girl who can't remember anything from her previous summer after a hurricane… read more

Similar categories in Kereen Getten's When Life Gives You Mangos book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Somehow, they suit each other, Rudy and Eldorath. They have the same imagination, and it’s as if they have been waiting for each other their whole lives."

-Kereen Getten, When Life Gives You Mangos

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7. When the World Was Ours

By: Liz Kessler

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Windsnap series, Liz Kessler, comes a poign… read more

Similar categories in Liz Kessler's When the World Was Ours book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Star Outside My Window

By: Onjali Q. Raúf

4.32

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

My mum is up there somewhere. She's waiting -- I can feel it. I just have to find her in time, that… read more

Similar categories in Onjali Q. Raúf's The Star Outside My Window book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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9. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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10. The Light in Everything

By: Katya Balen

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more

Similar categories in Katya Balen's The Light in Everything book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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11. Like a Charm

By: Elle McNicoll

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh is a city filled with magical creatures. No one can see them... until Ramya Knox. As … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Like a Charm book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Exactly. These stories about fairies and giants and vampires and trolls... they may have written them completely wrong. But you're still more likely to find a magical monster in a story than someone …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Ramya, your brain...it's why you can see through Glamour. It's why you're immune to Sirens. It's...it's incredible. I wish I were like you. I've never met anyone that can do what you do. I swear. It …"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Books are like little pockets of time. Little artifacts from other cultures and other periods of history. You can go to a museum where they put everything behind glass and won't let you touch things.…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

"Maybe you don't need the whole world. Maybe you don't need a fridge full of gold stars. You don't need to fit the mold. You just need one person who believes you're right, just as you are. That the g…"

-Elle McNicoll, Like a Charm

Cover of Until The Road Ends by Phil Earle

12. Until The Road Ends

By: Phil Earle

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Until the Road Ends is the eagerly awaited new novel from the bestselling author of When the Sky T… read more

Similar categories in Phil Earle's Until The Road Ends book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • war
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

13. The Crossing

By: Manjeet Mann

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The trailblazing new novel from the Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of Run, Rebel. Praise for Run… read more

Similar categories in Manjeet Mann's The Crossing book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
Cover of Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll

14. Show Us Who You Are

By: Elle McNicoll

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Show Us Who You Are book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"There are no useless facts, Cora."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"Grief is just love asking for more time."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."

-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

Cover of Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu

15. Boy, Everywhere

By: A.M. Dassu

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

BOY, EVERYWHERE is the debut middle grade novel from writer A. M. Dassu. It chronicles the harrowin… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • survival
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • war
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
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16. Windrush Child

By: Benjamin Zephaniah

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Zephaniah's Windrush Child book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • historical fiction
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17. Four Eids and a Funeral

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.71

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Four Eids and a Funeral book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. My Friend the Octopus

By: Lindsay Galvin

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

England, 1877, and aquarium fever is at its height. Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Galvin's My Friend the Octopus book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Color of a Lie by Kim  Johnson

19. The Color of a Lie

By: Kim Johnson

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught b… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. I Am Rebel

By: Montgomery Ross

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Montgomery Ross's I Am Rebel book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • childrens
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21. Quiet Storm

By: Kimberly Whittam

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

No matter how quiet it is, you've got a voice, Storm. You should use it to speak up for yourself. … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Whittam's Quiet Storm book and A.M. Dassu's Boy, Everywhere

  • middle grade
  • contemporary

18 Top fiction books like Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu

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The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

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Safiyyah's War

Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

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Tyger

S.F. Said

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Good Different

Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

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20 Top fiction books like The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

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Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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