6 Best family books like Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach

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Cracking the Bell

By: Geoff Herbach

3.79

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author …

If you liked the family plot in Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1) by Marie Lu

1. Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

By: Marie Lu

4.04

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In a world broken by war, a team of young warriors is willing to sacrifice everything to save what … read more

Similar categories in Marie Lu's Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1) book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"May there always be future dawns."

-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

"Sometimes a crime is an act of heroism."

-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

"But sometimes you cope by wasting time, yes?"

-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

"I accept, then. A few hundred dinners here with you."

-Marie Lu, Skyhunter (Skyhunter, #1)

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2. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

Similar categories in Kindra Neely's Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • contemporary
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3. All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

By: Erik J. Brown

4.23

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance … read more

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1) book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."

-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)

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4. We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's We Deserve Monuments book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"

-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments

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5. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By: Deya Muniz

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more

Similar categories in Deya Muniz's The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • young adult
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6. Chaos Theory

By: Nic Stone

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin, delivers a gripping romance about two tee… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Chaos Theory book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1) by Kayvion Lewis

7. Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1)

By: Kayvion Lewis

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat compe… read more

Similar categories in Kayvion Lewis's Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1) book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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8. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • sports
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9. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • high school
  • teen
  • audiobook
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10. This Golden State

By: Marit Weisenberg

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Winslow family lives by five principles: 1. No one can know your real name. 2. Don’t stay i… read more

Similar categories in Marit Weisenberg's This Golden State book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

By: Margaret Owen

4.26

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given,… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Owen's Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1) book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"- Sometimes you just have to throw spatzle at the wall and see what sticks. - You absolutely do not. That is how you get ruined spatzle."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"-I cannot tell you how many principles of knife safety you are violating right now. -Where's your sense of adventure? -When it comes to stab wounds? On indefinite sabbatical."

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"There’s just so much I could be stealing right now if I didn’t have social obligations with the man who tried to poison me earlier in the week. And if it weren’t for the curse. And, I suppose, the la…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

"I see myself for what I am: a scared girl, alone in a cruel world, abandoned by family and friend, who would rather turn herself to bloodstained stone than let anyone get close enough to leave anothe…"

-Margaret Owen, Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

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12. Love in English

By: Maria E. Andreu

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Ana has just moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school… read more

Similar categories in Maria E. Andreu's Love in English book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • high school
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own."

-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

"I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?"

-Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

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13. 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 Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • teen
  • 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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14. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's We Are All So Good at Smiling book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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15. A Duet for Home

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more

Similar categories in Karina Yan Glaser's A Duet for Home book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) by Olivia A. Cole

16. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

Similar categories in Olivia A. Cole's Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

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17. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

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18. Star Splitter

By: Matthew J. Kirby

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Crash-landed on a desolate planet lightyears from Earth, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mathers must unra… read more

Similar categories in Matthew J. Kirby's Star Splitter book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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19. More Than Just a Pretty Face

By: Syed M. Masood

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Becky Albertalli and Jenny Han, a sweetly funny YA rom-com debut about falling in love,… read more

Similar categories in Syed M. Masood's More Than Just a Pretty Face book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien."

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

"Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?" I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. "I'm an absolutely gorgeous face."

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

"Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind…"

-Syed M. Masood, More Than Just a Pretty Face

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20. 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 Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cracking the Bell by Geoff Herbach

21. Cracking the Bell

By: Geoff Herbach

3.79

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author … read more

Similar categories in Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell book and Geoff Herbach's Cracking the Bell

  • high school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • football
  • sports
  • audiobook

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Marie Lu

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4.23

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Jas Hammonds

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Byron Graves

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Angie Thomas

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