16 Top young adult books like The Speed of Falling Objects by Nan Fischer

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The Speed of Falling Objects

By: Nan Fischer

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of When Elephants Fly comes an exceptional new novel about falling down, risking ev…

If you liked the young adult plot in The Speed of Falling Objects by Nan Fischer , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. The Last to Let Go

By: Amber Smith

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A twisted tragedy leaves Brooke and her siblings on their own in this provocative new novel from th… read more

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2. The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily

By: None

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger… read more

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3. Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

By: Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“Jane” was just your typical 17-year-old getting ready to start her senior year. She had a part-tim… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Faria Stolarz's Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1) book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • teen
  • family
  • audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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5. Just Breathe

By: Cammie McGovern

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of A Step Toward Falling and Say What You Will comes a new YA … read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's Just Breathe book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Where I End and You Begin

By: Preston Norton

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ezra Slevin is an anxious, neurotic insomniac who spends his nights questioning his place in the un… read more

Similar categories in Preston Norton's Where I End and You Begin book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think,"

-Preston Norton, Where I End and You Begin

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7. The Lovely and the Lost

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.00

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Kira Bennett’s earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how lon… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Lovely and the Lost book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. The Peach Rebellion

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood to help heal the wounds of the… read more

Similar categories in Wendelin Van Draanen's The Peach Rebellion book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • teen
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. We Can Be Heroes

By: Kyrie McCauley

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Kyrie McCauley, author of If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's We Can Be Heroes book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"In a world that tells girls we shouldn't be angry, even as our lives are ripped from our grasps. When I throw the brick, I picture myself as a small child throwing pennies in a pond making wishes. So…"

-Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

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10. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Be Not Far from Me book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • survival
  • teen
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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11. Fadeaway

By: E.B. Vickers

3.88

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

When a high school basketball star goes missing, a town’s secrets are exposed in this edge-of-your … read more

Similar categories in E.B. Vickers's Fadeaway book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. I Hope You Get This Message

By: Farah Naz Rishi

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days. When news stations start reporting th… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's I Hope You Get This Message book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Being gay is not a fruit-borne disease, you idiot."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Only five seconds of thought stand between you and a crap-ton of regret."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"Just because you’ve lost all hope doesn’t mean you get to throw out hope for all of us."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

"The thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did."

-Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message

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13. Ordinary Hazards

By: Nikki Grimes

4.40

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

In her own voice, author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a mem… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Grimes's Ordinary Hazards book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • teen
  • family
  • audiobook
"I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand, except for this: Magicians rarely share their secrets."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening."

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

"MY BLACK ME My father fed me Invisible Man, Native Son, No Longer at Ease, Black Man's Burden, and the more I read, the madder I got, and I already had reason to scream, but my father kept me dreamin…"

-Nikki Grimes, Ordinary Hazards

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14. A Heart in a Body in the World

By: Deb Caletti

4.28

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that’s what Annabe… read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's A Heart in a Body in the World book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Books make you feel things hard."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"People plus people plus anger is how things can change."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"It's the people who know you and love you that save you."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

"She can't truly outrun her future, but you can't tell her body that."

-Deb Caletti, A Heart in a Body in the World

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15. Girl on the Run (Underlined Paperbacks)

By: Abigail Johnson

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced original paperback thriller about a girl who discovers that her mother might not be wh… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Johnson's Girl on the Run (Underlined Paperbacks) book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Those Summer Nights

By: Laura Silverman

3.77

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new summer job, an ex-bes… read more

Similar categories in Laura Silverman's Those Summer Nights book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Little Universes

By: Heather Demetrios

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change. When a ts… read more

Similar categories in Heather Demetrios's Little Universes book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Speed of Falling Objects

By: Nan Fischer

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of When Elephants Fly comes an exceptional new novel about falling down, risking ev… read more

Similar categories in Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • survival
  • teen
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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19. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

20. The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan

By: Gia Cribbs

4.17

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan. Not the lawyers or the c… read more

Similar categories in Gia Cribbs's The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Escape of Light

By: Fred Venturini

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“…a stunning read.” ―Kirkus Reviews The Escape of Light is a compulsively-readable marvel that dema… read more

Similar categories in Fred Venturini's The Escape of Light book and Nan Fischer's The Speed of Falling Objects

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook

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3.90

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3.89

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3.94

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Jeff Zentner

4.46

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