7 Top realistic fiction books like The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt

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The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

By: Cassandra Hartt

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

West Finch is one hurricane away from falling into the sea. Yet sixteen-year-old Harlow Prout is…

"The sea takes everything—except this."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

"The sea takes everything—except this."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

"Nothing stays secret in West Finch for long."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

"Nothing stays secret in West Finch for long."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in The Sea Is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. Where the World Ends

By: Geraldine McCaughrean

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every time a lad came fowling on the St Kilda stacs, he went home less of a boy and more of a man. … read more

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2. Maybe a Fox

By: Kathi Appelt , Alison McGhee

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sylvie and Jules. Jules and Sylvie. Jules adores her older-by-one-year sister, Sylvie. Sylvie: beau… read more

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3. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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4. Fox & I

By: Catherine Raven

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Raven's Fox & I book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

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5. The Missing Season

By: Gillian French

3.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Edgar Award finalist Grit and The Lies They Tell comes a tense, atmospheric nove… read more

Similar categories in Gillian French's The Missing Season book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. The Poisons We Drink

By: Bethany Baptiste

3.75

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Baptiste's The Poisons We Drink book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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7. 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 Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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8. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

Similar categories in Vera Brosgol's Plain Jane and the Mermaid book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
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9. The Ones We're Meant to Find

By: Joan He

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection of how she arr… read more

Similar categories in Joan He's The Ones We're Meant to Find book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Most choices are made before you reach the edge."

-Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

"I love you. And even if you failed me, I'd never replace you"

-Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

"And I think we have even less choice over the ones we’re meant to find."

-Joan He, The Ones We're Meant to Find

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10. The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ho's The Silence that Binds Us book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. The Halloween Moon

By: Joseph Fink

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling adult author Joseph Fink comes a wickedly fun middle grade novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Fink's The Halloween Moon book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1) book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

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13. Three Things I Know Are True

By: Betty Culley

4.08

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This moving debut novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of an accident tha… read more

Similar categories in Betty Culley's Three Things I Know Are True book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"The sounds Mom made were worse than Jonah's. So now the nurses call me."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"I have a theory about friendship. One friend is always nicer. Jonah made everyone laugh. He could talk to anyone about anything, but Clay was nicer."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"I know how that is-- how the worst thing is right where you least expect it to be-- in your lungs, in your chest, in the attic of the house right across the street."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

"So impatient to start his big life, to make people laugh, to see what would happen. Doing anything for a dare. So afraid he'd be stuck in Maddigan, Maine, for the rest of his life."

-Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True

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14. Edgewood

By: Kristen Ciccarelli

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

No matter how far she runs, the forest of Edgewood always comes for Emeline Lark. The scent of damp… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Ciccarelli's Edgewood book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Emeline's attendants fluttered like moths as they dressed her, oblivious to her unhappiness. They helped her into a midnight-blue gown with two glittering cicada wings stitched down the back in gold …"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"With her hand tucked into his elbow, Rooke led Emeline down halls awash in the golden hues of sunset. Vases bordering the windows sprouted green pine boughs and branches of bright red sumac. As Emeli…"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"In its place rested a flower. A white anemone, pretty as a star. What the...? Emeline pinched the flower's stem between her fingers and plucked it out from beneath her stool. Light caught in the tran…"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

"A tiny orb rested in the center of the pale green pillowcase. She picked it up. The orb was smaller than a marble, but bigger than a pearl, and it was unnaturally cold to the touch. Opal-like colors …"

-Kristen Ciccarelli, Edgewood

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15. Burn Our Bodies Down

By: Rory Power

3.51

Format: 352 pages, ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a g… read more

Similar categories in Rory Power's Burn Our Bodies Down book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"(...) if understanding a person meant I had to forgive them."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"I don't think the past ever really leaves, in Phalene. It breathes. It holds on."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

"And maybe it's spite or maybe it's love but I can't really tell them apart anymore."

-Rory Power, Burn Our Bodies Down

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16. The Windeby Puzzle

By: Lois Lowry

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Ag… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's The Windeby Puzzle book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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17. Bad Girls Never Say Die

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Moxie comes a gripping gender-flipped reimagining of The Outsiders tha… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's Bad Girls Never Say Die book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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18. Darling

By: K. Ancrum

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl finds herself lost on a dangerous adventure in this YA thriller by the acclaimed author… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Darling book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. Where Darkness Blooms

By: Andrea Hannah

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunf… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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20. Dear Mothman

By: Robin Gow

4.25

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Poet and author Robin Gow’s moving middle-grade novel in verse Dear Mothman is about a young trans … read more

Similar categories in Robin Gow's Dear Mothman book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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21. What We Harvest

By: Ann Fraistat

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange d… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's What We Harvest book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"If rainbows could rot then so could stars."

-Ann Fraistat, What We Harvest

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22. So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics)

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm an… read more

Similar categories in Bethany C. Morrow's So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (Remixed Classics) book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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23. A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome

By: Ariel Henley

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it.At only eight months old, identical twin sis… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Henley's A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • audiobook
  • mental health
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24. Riven

By: Mindee Arnett

3.77

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An epic, adventurous story of a young mercenary magic-user trying to escape the oppressive island o… read more

Similar categories in Mindee Arnett's Riven book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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25. The Lucky Ones

By: Liz Lawson

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. … read more

Similar categories in Liz Lawson's The Lucky Ones book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Dig

By: A.S. King

4.16

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

The Shoveler, the Freak, CanIHelpYou?, Loretta the Flea-Circus Ring Mistress, and First-Class Malco… read more

Similar categories in A.S. King's Dig book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Judging from our last fifteen flights, I can tell you that poverty is not a popular conversation choice in first class. Or any class. In any class. Going anywhere. Which is really handy for the peopl…"

-A.S. King, Dig

"Existence is wasted on the living." "You're stoned." She takes another pull of the cigarette. "What do you think happens when we die? You believe in Heaven and Hell and all that shit?" We're outside …"

-A.S. King, Dig

"I've never understood white people who can't admit they're white. I mean, white isn't just a color. And maybe that's the problem for them. White is a passport. It's a ticket. The world is a white amu…"

-A.S. King, Dig

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27. Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America

By: P. O’Connell Pearson

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O’Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian … read more

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28. Like Home

By: Louisa Onomé

3.62

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Netflix's On My Block, In the Heights, and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Ibi Zoboi wi… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Onomé's Like Home book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Chaos Curse

By: Sayantani DasGupta

4.20

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Creating order out of chaos has frightening consequences in this New York Times bestselling series!… read more

Similar categories in Sayantani DasGupta's The Chaos Curse book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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30. Monarca

By: Eva Aridjis

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated fable for all ages about a Mexican-American girl who transforms into a monarch butte… read more

Similar categories in Eva Aridjis's Monarca book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • fiction
  • young adult
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31. The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

By: Cassandra Hartt

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

West Finch is one hurricane away from falling into the sea. Yet sixteen-year-old Harlow Prout is… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I book and Cassandra Hartt's The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • lgbt
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The sea takes everything—except this."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

"Nothing stays secret in West Finch for long."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

"When all you know is sea and the sky, everything on land is something to look at."

-Cassandra Hartt, The Sea Is Salt and So Am I

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3.25

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3.75

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