10 must-read realistic fiction books like The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr

Cover of The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr

The Truth About Everything

By: Bridget Farr

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Library Binding

Gut a fish. Rewire a truck. Survive the collapse of the US government. All lessons fifteen-year-old…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home by Leigh  Newman

1. Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home

By: Leigh Newman

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Part adventure story, part love story, part homecoming, Still Points North is a page-turning memoir… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Newman's Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

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2. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. Timid

By: Jonathan Todd

3.57

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Todd's Timid book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
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4. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Everett's The Probability of Everything book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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7. Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel

By: Betty C. Tang

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants, inspired by the au… read more

Similar categories in Betty C. Tang's Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
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8. The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ho's The Silence that Binds Us book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Dark Room Etiquette

By: Robin Roe

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything—until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him his whole … read more

Similar categories in Robin Roe's Dark Room Etiquette book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Just Do This One Thing for Me

By: Laura Zimmermann

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rule-following daughter tries to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears. … read more

Similar categories in Laura Zimmermann's Just Do This One Thing for Me book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. 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 Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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13. 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 Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. Some Kind of Hate

By: Sarah Darer Littman

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accid… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Darer Littman's Some Kind of Hate book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Immeasurable Depth of You

By: Maria Ingrande Mora

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you face your fears when everything is terrifying? Fifteen-year-old Brynn can’t stop thin… read more

Similar categories in Maria Ingrande Mora's The Immeasurable Depth of You book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The water rippled around her. I hated it. It didn't make sense. Dead girls shouldn't displace water. Or cry."

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"It's not my fault you didn't think any of it was weird. Who lives in the mangroves? In a bathing suit?" "Why would I think you were dead?" I shouted. "Ghosts aren't real!"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"We are all made of liquid and slippery organs. Life was improbable. Fragile. It was only a matter of time before something ripped us up and ruined us and we died. It didn't take anything for me to ki…"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

"That's what I hated thinking about the most. Oblivion. Nothing. Forever. As unfathomable as the universe around us stretching endlessly, impossibly big, horrible, terrifying... Being alive scared the…"

-Maria Ingrande Mora, The Immeasurable Depth of You

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16. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's The Getaway book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
Cover of Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson

17. Survive the Dome

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his came… read more

Similar categories in Kosoko Jackson's Survive the Dome book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It's not justice when the courts play in favor of the accused."

-Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

"It takes so little experience to become a cop. But that's the trick, isn't it? Most cops aren't old enough to hold other people's lives in their hands, and yet we trust them with exactly that."

-Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

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18. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr

19. The Truth About Everything

By: Bridget Farr

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Library Binding

Gut a fish. Rewire a truck. Survive the collapse of the US government. All lessons fifteen-year-old… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

  • high school
  • young adult contemporary
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida

20. Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore

By: Seiji Yoshida

4.54

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Studio Ghibli, artist Seiji Yoshida’s fantastical art book is a perfect gift that trans… read more

Similar categories in Seiji Yoshida's Houses with a Story: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore book and Bridget Farr's The Truth About Everything

18 Top fiction books like The Truth About Everything by Bridget Farr

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Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

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Timid

Jonathan Todd

3.57

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Gene Luen Yang

4.41

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A Rover's Story

Jasmine Warga

4.28

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Gretchen McNeil

4.88

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Jeff Zentner

4.46

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Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

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