23 best-selling realistic fiction books like Mascot by Antony John

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Mascot

By: Antony John

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Noah Savino has been stuck in a wheelchair for months. He hates the way people treat him like he’s …

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Mascot by Antony John , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The Other Boy

By: M.G. Hennessey

3.44

Format: 213 pages, ebook

A heartfelt and timely middle grade story about a transgender boy's journey toward acceptance and e… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Hour of the Bees

By: Lindsay Eagar

3.80

Format: 245 pages, ebook

Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . . While her friends are spending th… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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3. Fair Weather

By: Richard Peck

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can p… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult

4. Short

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll reali… read more

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

5. Haven (Apocalypsis, #4)

By: Elle Casey

4.12

Format: 260 pages, ebook

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . NEW YORK TIMESand USA TODAYBESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY… read more

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6. Warpaint (Apocalypsis, #2)

By: Elle Casey

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

NEW YORK TIMESand USA TODAYBESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 2 of 4 in the YA Dys… read more

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7. Cyclone

By: Doreen Cronin

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Nora's whole world plummets faster than the Cyclone roller coaster when her cousin Riley falls into… read more

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8. After The Shot Drops

By: Randy Ribay

4.36

Format: 94 pages, ebook

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for h… read more

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9. Slugfest

By: Gordon Korman

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School. So good, in fact, that's he's already been pla… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
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10. Linked

By: Gordon Korman

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks in… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at."

-Gordon Korman, Linked

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11. A Work in Progress

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starr… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Tornado Brain

By: Cat Patrick

4.14

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A neurodivergent 7th grader is determined to find her missing best friend before it's too late. … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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13. Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Volume 2)

By: Dusti Bowling

4.32

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

“High School. Two words that struck fear into the heart of every armless middle schooler I knew. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus (Volume 2) book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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14. 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

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
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15. Borrow My Heart

By: Kasie West

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a girl overhears a guy getting verbally destroyed by his friend for being catfished, she jumps… read more

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  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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17. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Antony John's Mascot

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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18. Wink

By: Rob Harrell

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A wrenching and hilarious story about embracing life's weirdness and surviving an unthinkable diagn… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harrell's Wink book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. No Matter the Distance

By: Cindy Baldwin

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in th… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Baldwin's No Matter the Distance book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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20. Dream, Annie, Dream

By: Waka T. Brown

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Waka T. Brown's Dream, Annie, Dream book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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21. Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero

By: Saadia Faruqi

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting fo… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Air

By: Monica Roe

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • disability
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23. The Someday Suitcase

By: Corey Ann Haydu

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Clover and Danny are the kind of best friends who make each other even better. They’re so important… read more

Similar categories in Corey Ann Haydu's The Someday Suitcase book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Drum Roll, Please

By: Lisa Jenn Bigelow

4.23

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat. Melly only joined the school band because her … read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I may only be four foot, eight inches, but all the more reason I've got to stand by every one of them. Now, where's my glitter?"

-Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Drum Roll, Please

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25. Squint

By: Chad Morris

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

My name is Flint, but everyone in middle school calls me Squint because I’m losing my vision. I use… read more

Similar categories in Chad Morris's Squint book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. A Soft Place to Land

By: Janae Marks

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Follow a young girl reshaping her meaning of home. Joy Taylor has always believed home is the ho… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. A Sky Full of Song

By: Susan Lynn Meyer

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

 North Dakota, 1905   After fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire, eleven-year-old Shoshana a… read more

Similar categories in Susan Lynn Meyer's A Sky Full of Song book and Antony John's Mascot

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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28. Mascot

By: Antony John

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Noah Savino has been stuck in a wheelchair for months. He hates the way people treat him like he’s … read more

Similar categories in Antony John's Mascot book and Antony John's Mascot

  • baseball
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • disability
Cover of Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey by Magdalena Newman

29. Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey

By: Magdalena Newman

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Praised by R.J. Palacio as "wondrous"--this moving memoir follows a teenage boy with TC syndrome an… read more

Similar categories in Magdalena Newman's Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey book and Antony John's Mascot

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • disability
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30. Gut Reaction

By: Kirby Larson

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Author Kirby Larson, and her daughter, debut author, Quinn Wyatt, pen this story that explores wha… read more

Similar categories in Kirby Larson's Gut Reaction book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • death
  • contemporary
  • disability
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31. Right as Rain

By: Lindsey Stoddard

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Just Like Jackie comes a strikingly tender novel about one … read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Stoddard's Right as Rain book and Antony John's Mascot

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • sports

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The Other Boy

M.G. Hennessey

3.44

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Lindsay Eagar

3.80

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Fair Weather

Richard Peck

2.00

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Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.82

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Kate DiCamillo

4.30

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Lisa Yee

3.82

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