6 Best realistic fiction books like Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold

Cover of Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold

Paper Daughter

By: Jeanette Ingold

3.47

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with th…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland, Charisse Jones

1. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

By: Misty Copeland , Charisse Jones

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Picture a ballerina in a tutu and toe shoes. What does she look like?" As the only African America… read more

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2. The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Pero, tú no eres fácil."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"Just because your father's present, doesn't mean he isn't absent."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"It's about any of the words that bring us together and how we can form a home in them."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

"I close my eyes and let myself find in music what I've always searched for: a way away."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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3. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's Moxie book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

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

By: Diana Harmon Asher

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

To Joseph Friedman, middle school might as well be the Running of the Bulls. He's friendless and pu… read more

Similar categories in Diana Harmon Asher's Sidetracked book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult

5. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

By: Mackenzi Lee

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry "Monty" Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The f… read more

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6. The One and Only Ivan

By: Katherine Applegate , Patricia Castelao

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accu… read more

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7. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

Similar categories in Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • contemporary
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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8. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

Similar categories in Charles Waters's Mascot book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. The Nurse's Secret

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.15

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The unflinching, spellbinding new book from the acclaimed author of The Second Life of Mirielle Wes… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Nurse's Secret book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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 Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • fiction
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11. Me: Moth

By: Amber McBride

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA novel-in-verse that is both a coming-of-age and a ghost story. Moth has lost her fami… read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's Me: Moth book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Most of the founding fathers were like that; they spoke of freedom but did not offer it to everyone. They had bodies in their closets."

-Amber McBride, Me: Moth

"Places we decide to stop. Monticello Plantation, Charlottesville, Virginia: Where Thomas Jefferson committed several sins; we go to stomp on hateful plantation ground."

-Amber McBride, Me: Moth

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12. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. The Island

By: Natasha Preston

3.47

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding re… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Island book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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14. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Agathas (The Agathas #1) book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."

-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

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15. Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

By: Patricia Park

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Park's Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
Cover of Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold

16. Paper Daughter

By: Jeanette Ingold

3.47

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with th… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter book and Jeanette Ingold's Paper Daughter

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • china
  • journalism
  • mystery

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Elizabeth Acevedo

4.38

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Jennifer Mathieu

4.00

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Sidetracked

Diana Harmon Asher

5.00

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Julie Otsuka

3.67

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Ibi Zoboi

3.96

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Deb Caletti

4.02

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Nic Stone

4.16

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4.02

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