8 Best realistic fiction books like Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins

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Forward Me Back to You

By: Mitali Perkins

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the South Asia Book Award School Library Journal Best YA Book of the Year Kirkus Best Y…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Under Rose-Tainted Skies

By: Louise Gornall

3.97

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Norah has accepted that the four walls of her house delineate her life. She knows tha… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"But it's like my mind and my brain are two separte thing, working against each other."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"It's such a noble word, unconditional. Brave. Blindly committing to situations it knows nothing about."

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

"I this I could reach out, put a hand on his shoulder, and ask him if he is all right. A side effect of worrying about everything and everyone; I cry at least once a week over things that shouldn't co…"

-Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies

Cover of Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) by Lois Lenski, Maud Hart Lovelace

2. Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age.… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
"This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box was plainly meant to belong to Betsy and Tacy, for it fitted them so …"

-Lois Lenski, Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

"Did we bring a lunch?' asked Tacy. 'Yes,' said Betsy. 'It's under the seat. There are chicken sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs and potato salad and watermelon and chocolate cake and sweet pickles and …"

-Lois Lenski, Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)

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3. Betsy-Tacy and Tib (Betsy-Tacy, #2)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • fiction
Cover of Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2) by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville

4. Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

By: Maud Hart Lovelace , Vera Neville

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Deep Valley! Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the … read more

Similar categories in Maud Hart Lovelace's Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2) book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • fiction
  • young adult
"I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new."

-Maud Hart Lovelace, Emily of Deep Valley (Deep Valley, #2)

5. Jayber Crow

By: Wendell Berry

3.95

Format: 253 pages,

From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, seminarian, and native of Port… read more

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6. Save Me a Seat

By: Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.… read more

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7. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Betsy-Tacy, #3)

By: Lois Lenski , Maud Hart Lovelace

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginn… read more

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8. One Crazy Summer (Gaither Sisters, #1)

By: Rita Williams-Garcia

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with… read more

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9. Prairie Lotus

By: Linda Sue Park

4.29

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an educat… read more

Similar categories in Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

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11. We Are All That's Left

By: Carrie Arcos

4.26

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Two lives. Two worlds apart. One deeply compelling story set in both Bosnia and the United States, … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Arcos's We Are All That's Left book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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12. The Best Summer of Our Lives

By: Rachel Hauck

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Twenty years ago, the summer of '77 was supposed to be the best summer of Summer Wilde's life. She … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hauck's The Best Summer of Our Lives book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If you feel lost, go back to the last place you felt found."

-Rachel Hauck, The Best Summer of Our Lives

"It took all four of us to make our friendship work. We were a square, and if one side collapsed, all sides collapsed."

-Rachel Hauck, The Best Summer of Our Lives

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13. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

By: Daniel Nayeri

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

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14. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling

By: Elise Bryant

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. S… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's On the Bright Side book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. The Major and the Missionary: The Letters Of Warren Hamilton Lewis And Blanche Biggs

By: Diana Pavlac Glyer

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

After the death of his brother, Warren Lewis lived at The Kilns in Oxford, edited his famous brothe… read more

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18. The Right Side of Reckless

By: Whitney D. Grandison

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

He’s never met a rule he didn’t break… She’s followed the rules her whole life… When they meet, one… read more

Similar categories in Whitney D. Grandison's The Right Side of Reckless book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of One True Loves (Happily Ever Afters, #2) by Elise Bryant

19. One True Loves (Happily Ever Afters, #2)

By: Elise Bryant

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lenore Bennett has always been a force. A star artist and style icon at her high school, she’s a ma… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's One True Loves (Happily Ever Afters, #2) book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • travel
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Angel of Greenwood

By: Randi Pink

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, … read more

Similar categories in Randi Pink's Angel of Greenwood book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Greenwood chipped in to help prop up Isaiah's household. He, therefore, was quietly indepted to them all, even his best friend. Isaiah could never show himself as he truly was on the inside. He could…"

-Randi Pink, Angel of Greenwood

"The shocking death of a loved one isn't a wailing thing. The real shudder comes from the world moving on as if nothing's happened. Shops flip their Closed signs to Open, patrons gather at the theater…"

-Randi Pink, Angel of Greenwood

Cover of Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins

21. Forward Me Back to You

By: Mitali Perkins

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the South Asia Book Award School Library Journal Best YA Book of the Year Kirkus Best Y… read more

Similar categories in Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You book and Mitali Perkins's Forward Me Back to You

  • travel
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • adoption
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook

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