7 best-selling realistic fiction books like All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

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All the Stars Denied

By: Guadalupe Garcia McCall

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe Garcia McCall tackles t…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

1. Number the Stars

By: Lois Lowry

4.00

Format: None pages,

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war.… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Number the Stars book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Refugee

By: Alan Gratz

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming,… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Refugee book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

4. Forget Me Not

By: Ellie Terry

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A girl with Tourette syndrome starts a new school and tries to hide her quirks in this debut middle… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Terry's Forget Me Not book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

5. The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to mil… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Book of Unknown Americans book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

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6. Swim Team

By: Johnnie Christmas

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more

Similar categories in Johnnie Christmas's Swim Team book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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7. Witchlings (Witchlings, #1)

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.15

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

A magical adventure for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and Nevermoor, about three witchlings … read more

Similar categories in Claribel A. Ortega's Witchlings (Witchlings, #1) book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • middle grade
  • fiction
Cover of Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) by Dan Gemeinhart

8. Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Dan Gemeinhart comes a standalone companion to the critic… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2) book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
"But it's not the sandwich that matter Coyote. It's someone bringing you the sandwich."

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

"I'm gonna go ahead a fast-forward the story a bit here. Because, basically some boring stuff happened and then some very exciting stuff happened, and I think it's best to just skip the crust and go s…"

-Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

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9. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds

4.48

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning for ages 12 and up. A time… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • middle grade
"Science says the races are biologically equal so if they're not in society, the only reason why can be racism."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"...leads back to the question of whether you, reader, want to be a segregationist (a hater), an assimilationist (a coward), or an antiracist (someone who truly loves)."

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"The first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past. By acknowledging America's racist past, we can acknowledge America's racist present. In acknowledging America'…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

"Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: I’m sure you’ve heard of this one. If you live in the South and go to a diverse school, this is why. This was the case that said racial segregation in public school…"

-Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

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10. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more

Similar categories in Steve Sheinkin's Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • middle grade
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11. Invisible

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more

Similar categories in Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Invisible book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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12. Healer of the Water Monster

By: Brian Young

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, h… read more

Similar categories in Brian Young's Healer of the Water Monster book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • adventure
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13. Beastly Beauty

By: Jennifer Donnelly

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gend… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Donnelly's Beastly Beauty book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • young adult
"If you want to know a person, don't ask to hear their truth. Listen to their lies."

-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty

"You must do one thing and one thing only--become the person you were meant to be. No matter how daunting that task may be. Otherwise, your life is not a life; it is merely a long, protracted death."

-Jennifer Donnelly, Beastly Beauty

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14. Like a Love Story

By: Abdi Nazemian

4.26

Format: 432 pages, None

It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy w… read more

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love Story book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"I just have too much to scream about to leave just yet."

-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

"In the language my mother speaks, I literally don't exist."

-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

"There should be a limit on how long any human being has to wear braces. - Reza"

-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

"I want her to hold me, ask me about him, something. Instead she says, 'I can't hear about this. Please. I can't."

-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

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15. The Lipstick Bureau

By: Michelle Gable

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Gable's The Lipstick Bureau book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Librarian of Saint-Malo

By: Mario Escobar

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Libraries are being ransacked. France is torn apart by war. A French librarian is determined to res… read more

Similar categories in Mario Escobar's The Librarian of Saint-Malo book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes everything has to come crashing down for us to understand what we have built our lives upon."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"The power of words does not lie in the stories we tell, but in our ability to connect to the hearts of those who read them."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"Hopes are just wishes we cast into the wind. And the only thing that can bring them back to us are the inscrutable whims of fate."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

"Youth is much more persuasive than maturity, reminding us of what we have forgotten, that the present is the only thing that actually exists."

-Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

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17. The Golden Hour

By: Niki Smith

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that ge… read more

Similar categories in Niki Smith's The Golden Hour book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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18. Great or Nothing

By: Joy McCullough

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Great or Nothing book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"But there is little room for anything but truth in the fresh gnaw of becoming."

-Joy McCullough, Great or Nothing

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19. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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20. Beneath the Wide Silk Sky

By: Emily Inouye Huey

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A portrait of the racism faced by America's Japanese population during WWII. Sam Sakamoto doesn'… read more

Similar categories in Emily Inouye Huey's Beneath the Wide Silk Sky book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
Cover of All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

21. All the Stars Denied

By: Guadalupe Garcia McCall

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In a companion novel to her critically acclaimed Shame the Stars, Guadalupe Garcia McCall tackles t… read more

Similar categories in Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied book and Guadalupe Garcia McCall's All the Stars Denied

  • teen
  • adventure
  • historical
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • young adult historical fiction

17 Top fiction books like All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

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Lois Lowry

4.00

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Alan Gratz

3.16

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Ellie Terry

3.63

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Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

4.28

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Ibi Zoboi

3.96

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Mascot

Charles Waters

4.02

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Rebecca Caprara

4.25

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A Long Stretch of Bad Days

Mindy McGinnis

4.02

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