7 Best realistic fiction books like Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu

Cover of Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu

Girls on the Line

By: Jennie Liu

3.64

Format: 232 pages, ebook

A teen pregnancy puts two orphan girls in contemporary China on a collision course with factory bos…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

By: Avi

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences... Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murd… read more

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2. First Comes Love

By: Emily Giffin

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Something Borr… read more

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3. Decelerate Blue

By: Mike Cavallaro , Adam Rapp

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

The future waits for no one. In this new world, speed and efficiency are everything, and the popula… read more

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4. You Know I'm No Good

By: Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Printz Honor winner and William C. Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes the story of o… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Ann Foley's You Know I'm No Good book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • 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 Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
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6. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

By: Pedro Martín

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more

Similar categories in Pedro Martín's Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."

-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

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7. Other Words for Home

By: Jasmine Warga

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

I am learning how to be sad and happy at the same time. Jude never thought she’d be leaving h… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's Other Words for Home book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • cultural
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Americans are obsessed with murder"

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"It seems like the kind of place where dreams could grow and live."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

"Mama hugs me and I hold her back. Sometimes all you can do is hold on."

-Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

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8. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's Canary Girls book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Moorewood Family Rules

By: HelenKay Dimon

3.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Knives Out  and  Ocean’s 8  meets  The Nest  in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning auth… read more

Similar categories in HelenKay Dimon's Moorewood Family Rules book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Library

By: Bella Osborne

4.35

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two different generations. Two unusual people. Thrown together to save their local library. Tom is… read more

Similar categories in Bella Osborne's The Library book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dog are awesome. They don't care if you're clever or not; they just like to hang out with you"

-Bella Osborne, The Library

"If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all…"

-Bella Osborne, The Library

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11. Blended

By: Sharon M. Draper

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?” Eleven-year-old Isabella i… read more

Similar categories in Sharon M. Draper's Blended book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"The doors of Target opened with a welcoming swoosh, and I was instantly distracted. Yeah. Target does that to me. I feel at home. They've got stuff I need. Stuff I don't need. Stuff I didn't even kno…"

-Sharon M. Draper, Blended

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12. The Paper Menagerie

By: Ken Liu

4.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She told me about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had. And that was how I got into t…"

-Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie

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13. Before I Let You Go

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister’s voice in years. Annie is a… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Rimmer's Before I Let You Go book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why do I rail only against the things that help me, and never against my habit towards self-destruction?"

-Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go

"You love like that only once in a lifetime—you can love from a place of innocence only once. It always leads to the deepest hurt, and after that, you’re changed and hardened by it."

-Kelly Rimmer, Before I Let You Go

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14. Kiss Number 8

By: Colleen A.F. Venable

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball g… read more

Similar categories in Colleen A.F. Venable's Kiss Number 8 book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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15. Give Me a Sign

By: Anna Sortino

4.11

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when… read more

Similar categories in Anna Sortino's Give Me a Sign book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. A Thief Among the Trees (An Ember in the Ashes Graphic Novel Prequel, #1)

By: Sabaa Tahir

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Within the Empire there are no questions, only orders. Elias, Helene, and Tavi are Fivers—in tra… read more

Similar categories in Sabaa Tahir's A Thief Among the Trees (An Ember in the Ashes Graphic Novel Prequel, #1) book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • young adult
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17. Anna Bright Is Hiding Something

By: Susie Orman Schnall

3.56

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

The Dropout meets Inventing Anna in this cinematic and page-turning summer read! A ripped-from-the-… read more

Similar categories in Susie Orman Schnall's Anna Bright Is Hiding Something book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Jupiter Rising

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.59

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Jupiter Rising book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. Girls on the Line

By: Jennie Liu

3.64

Format: 232 pages, ebook

A teen pregnancy puts two orphan girls in contemporary China on a collision course with factory bos… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • cultural
  • young adult contemporary
  • asia
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • china
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • contemporary
Cover of The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5) by Nita Prose

21. The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5)

By: Nita Prose

3.81

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve this holiday when a Secret Santa gift exchange rais… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mistletoe Mystery (Molly the Maid, #2.5) book and Jennie Liu's Girls on the Line

  • fiction
  • contemporary

17 Best fiction books like Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu

Transform Your Habits

You Know I'm No Good

Jessie Ann Foley

4.01

Transform Your Habits

A Rover's Story

Jasmine Warga

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Canary Girls

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

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Transform Your Habits

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

4.50

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