13 must-read realistic fiction books like Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan

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Rebel Girls

By: Elizabeth Keenan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“Echoing the punk-rock feminist movement of the early ’90s, debut author Keenan creates a timely na…

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Cover of Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2) by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra

1. Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.79

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

May the best dancer win. June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan’s most… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. What I Lost

By: Alexandra Ballard

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and he… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Leah on the Offbeat

By: Becky Albertalli

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leah Burke--girl-band drummer, master of deadpan, and Simon Spier's best friend from the award-winn… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Moxie

By: Jennifer Mathieu

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Moxie girls fight back! Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Trouble

By: Non Pratt

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this dazzling debut novel, a pregnant teen learns the meaning of friendship--from the boy who pr… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. It's Not Like It's a Secret

By: Misa Sugiura

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when h… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Lucky in Love

By: Kasie West

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can't buy me love... Maddie's not impulsive. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one … read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

8. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

By: Jaye Robin Brown

3.71

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarr… read more

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9. Piper

By: Jay Asher , Jessica Freeburg

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl … read more

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10. Exit, Pursued by a Bear

By: E.K. Johnston

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston's latest brave and unforgettable heroine. … read more

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11. Symptoms of Being Human

By: Jeff Garvin

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl? Riley Cavanau… read more

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12. You're Welcome, Universe

By: Whitney Gardner

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for t… read more

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13. My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2)

By: Brodi Ashton , Cynthia Hand , Jodi Meadows

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks o… read more

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14. Windfall

By: Jennifer E. Smith

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Let luck find you. Alice doesn't believe in luck--at least, not the good kind. But she does believe… read more

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15. Girl Mans Up

By: M.E. Girard

4.22

Format: 160 pages, ebook

All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with… read more

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16. I Believe in a Thing Called Love

By: Maurene Goo

4.60

Format: None pages,

Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That's how she became student body presi… read more

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17. Rules for Being a Girl

By: Candace Bushnell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . . Marin has al… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Remember, girl: It's the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be! Just as long as you follow the rules."

-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl

"It starts before you can remember: you learn, as surely as you learn to walk and talk, the rules for being a girl... Put a little color on your face. Shave your legs. Don’t wear too much makeup. Don’…"

-Candace Bushnell, Rules for Being a Girl

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18. The Probability of Everything

By: Sarah Everett

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. 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

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. My Eyes Are Up Here

By: Laura Zimmermann

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Insightful, frank, and funny, My Eyes Are Up Here is a razor-sharp debut about a teenage girl strug… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

By: Rachel Hartman

3.91

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Meet Tess, a brave new heroine from beloved epic fantasy author Rachel Hartman. In the medieval … read more

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  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I am the prayer ."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"You’re making assumptions."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"Belief was uniquely human."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

"What’s done cannot be undone."

-Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

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22. If You Change Your Mind

By: Robby Weber

3.46

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious and heartfelt debut novel, an aspiring screenwriter learns sometimes love has its… read more

Similar categories in Robby Weber's If You Change Your Mind book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's like he's got Tony Stark or S.H.E.I.L.D on the other end at that phone or something."

-Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind

"Grants footsteps are the same as they always were, they are soft and slow but also confident, like him, he knows I'll follow."

-Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind

"- You said I wouldn't catch fire if I touch you, I say. - And that's not true, I will. It will be a wildfire and I won't be able to put it out."

-Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind

"- But if I am going to fail, I say. - If I am not going to end up in LA after all spending weekends with you and watching our dreams come true, I don’t want to risk falling for you again just to say …"

-Robby Weber, If You Change Your Mind

Cover of These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1) by Isabel Sterling

23. These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

By: Isabel Sterling

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the p… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I never want this moment to end"

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

"But the feeling of victory doesn't last. Every second that's filled with anything other than grief leaves me unbearably guilty."

-Isabel Sterling, These Witches Don't Burn (These Witches Don't Burn, #1)

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24. This Time Will Be Different

By: Misa Sugiura

3.72

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Katsuyamas never quit—but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. She’s never lived… read more

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  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. The Name She Gave Me

By: Betty Culley

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more

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  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"

-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me

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26. 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 Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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27. At Midnight

By: Dahlia Adler

3.42

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's At Midnight book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

28. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

Similar categories in Zeyn Joukhadar's The Map of Salt and Stars book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • audiobook
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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29. The Falling Girls

By: Hayley Krischer

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shade and Jadis are everything to each other. They share clothes, toothbrushes, and even matching s… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Krischer's The Falling Girls book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"We're not babes. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

"We're not babies. We're not sweet. We're nothing like you think we are. And I've never felt more like myself."

-Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

Cover of Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan

30. Rebel Girls

By: Elizabeth Keenan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“Echoing the punk-rock feminist movement of the early ’90s, debut author Keenan creates a timely na… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • feminism
  • politics
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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31. How to Breathe While Suffocating: A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul

By: Bruce W. Brackett

4.60

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Let go of negativity, rediscover your inherent worth, and unlock your true potential How To Breat… read more

Similar categories in Bruce W. Brackett's How to Breathe While Suffocating: A Story Of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing My Soul book and Elizabeth Keenan's Rebel Girls

  • audiobook

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3.69

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