12 must-read realistic fiction books like Painting the Game by Patricia MacLachlan

Cover of Painting the Game by Patricia MacLachlan

Painting the Game

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In this final middle grade novel by Newbery Award-winning author Patricia MacLachlan, a young girl …

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Painting the Game by Patricia MacLachlan , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Ferris by Kate DiCamillo

1. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Ferris book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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2. Orris and Timble: The Beginning

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilo… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's Orris and Timble: The Beginning book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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3. The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

By: Katherine Applegate

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan , a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4) book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

4. The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more

Similar categories in Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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5. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

Similar categories in Allie Millington's Olivetti book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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6. The Mystery of Locked Rooms

By: Lindsay Currie

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Crack the codes. Find the treasure. Escape the house. From the acclaimed author of Scritch Scratch … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's The Mystery of Locked Rooms book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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7. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Tree. Table. Book. book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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8. The Secret Language of Birds

By: Lynne Kelly

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning author of Song for a Whale comes a poignant and heartwarming tale about a gi… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Kelly's The Secret Language of Birds book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
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9. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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10. And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

4.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Fipps's And Then, Boom! book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • family
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"

-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!

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11. The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry

By: Anna Rose Johnson

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a… read more

Similar categories in Anna Rose Johnson's The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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12. Deep Water

By: Jamie Sumner

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An impactful, gripping middle grade novel in verse from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner that spans on… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Sumner's Deep Water book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • sports
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13. Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

By: Ann E. Burg

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and hopeful story of how a young impassioned naturalist grows up to change the world. F… read more

Similar categories in Ann E. Burg's Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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14. Light and Air

By: Mindy Nichols Wendell

4.34

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory i… read more

Similar categories in Mindy Nichols Wendell's Light and Air book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Wrong Way Home by Kate  O'Shaughnessy

15. The Wrong Way Home

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is … read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's The Wrong Way Home book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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16. Mid-Air

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wa… read more

Similar categories in Alicia D. Williams's Mid-Air book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • sports
  • juvenile
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17. The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Readers will be rooting for a happy ending for Hank in Newbery-Honor-winner Gennifer Choldenko’s gr… read more

Similar categories in Gennifer Choldenko's The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Painting the Game by Patricia MacLachlan

18. Painting the Game

By: Patricia MacLachlan

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In this final middle grade novel by Newbery Award-winning author Patricia MacLachlan, a young girl … read more

Similar categories in Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • baseball
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • family
  • sports
  • juvenile
Cover of Deer Run Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

19. Deer Run Home

By: Ann Clare LeZotte

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This heart-filled story… read more

Similar categories in Ann Clare LeZotte's Deer Run Home book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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20. Not Nothing

By: Gayle Forman

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning auth… read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's Not Nothing book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo

21. The Hotel Balzaar

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of No… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Hotel Balzaar book and Patricia MacLachlan's Painting the Game

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile

21 Best fiction books like Painting the Game by Patricia MacLachlan

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Orris and Timble: The Beginning

Kate DiCamillo

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The One and Only Family (The One and Only #4)

Katherine Applegate

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

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20 Top fiction books like The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Transform Your Habits

Ferris

Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)

Lisa Yee

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Coyote Lost and Found (Coyote Sunrise #2)

Dan Gemeinhart

4.54

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