11 must-read realistic fiction books like A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

Cover of A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

A Step Toward Falling

By: Cammie McGovern

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful an…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship by L.M. Elliott

1. Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

By: L.M. Elliott

3.73

Format: 464 pages, ebook

The colonies are in the throes of the Revolutionary War and caught in the midst of spies, traitors,… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Elliott's Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"That takes such active, intelligent creativity, analyzing the emotions a composer intends in those scratchy notes on a page, learning and perfecting the technique that gives you the skill to bring th…"

-L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

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2. Highly Illogical Behavior

By: John Corey Whaley

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn’t left the house in three years, which is fine by … read more

Similar categories in John Corey Whaley's Highly Illogical Behavior book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"They say using your imagination makes you live longer."

-John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

"He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing."

-John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

"Swimming was the opposite of panic attack. Fluid and calm and quiet."

-John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

"Some people sign on for the impossible. And they're the ones everybody remembers."

-John Corey Whaley, Highly Illogical Behavior

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3. The Beginning of Everything

By: Robyn Schneider

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them--a single encounter after… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Short

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll reali… read more

Similar categories in Holly Goldberg Sloan's Short book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. The Lost and the Found

By: Cat Clarke

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

SHE WAS LOST... When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger siste… read more

Similar categories in Cat Clarke's The Lost and the Found book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

6. A Step Toward Falling

By: Cammie McGovern

4.33

Format: None pages, ebook

Cammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful an… read more

Similar categories in Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
Cover of Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist

7. Love and First Sight

By: Josh Sundquist

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love is more than meets the eye. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Port… read more

Similar categories in Josh Sundquist's Love and First Sight book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
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8. The Story of Beautiful Girl

By: Rachel Simon

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African Amer… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Simon's The Story of Beautiful Girl book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • fiction
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9. Liar & Spy

By: Rebecca Stead

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When seventh grader Georges (the Sis silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Saf… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Stead's Liar & Spy book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult

10. Ask the Passengers

By: A.S. King

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Astrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's l… read more

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11. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1)

By: Gennifer Choldenko

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by wa… read more

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12. Extraordinary Means

By: Robyn Schneider

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

When he's sent to Latham House, a boarding school for sick teens, Lane thinks his life may as well … read more

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13. Not If I See You First

By: Eric Lindstrom

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Rules Don't deceive me. Ever. Especially using my blindness. Especially in public. Don't help m… read more

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14. What I Didn't Say

By: Keary Taylor

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

Getting drunk homecoming night your senior year is never a good idea, but Jake Hayes never expected… read more

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15. Braced

By: Alyson Gerber

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first contemporary novel about a disorder that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers:… read more

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Cover of Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2) by Kasie West

16. Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2)

By: Kasie West

3.71

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Lacey Barnes has dreamed of being an actress for as long as she can remember. So when she gets the … read more

Similar categories in Kasie West's Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2) book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why entertainment?"

-Kasie West, Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss (Love, Life, and the List, #2)

Cover of Squirm by Carl Hiaasen

17. Squirm

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.83

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run ov… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Squirm book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
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18. The Art of Insanity

By: Christine Webb

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

High schooler Natalie Cordova has just been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. Her mom insists she ke… read more

Similar categories in Christine Webb's The Art of Insanity book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • disability
Cover of One Way or Another by Kara McDowell

19. One Way or Another

By: Kara McDowell

3.80

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Sliding Doors meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in a sweet, smart holiday romance about a gir… read more

Similar categories in Kara McDowell's One Way or Another book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Rabbit holes are my specialty. I live and breathe in them."

-Kara McDowell, One Way or Another

Cover of The White Coat Diaries by Madi Sinha

20. The White Coat Diaries

By: Madi Sinha

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Grey’s Anatomy meets Scrubs in this brilliant debut novel about a young doctor’s struggle to surviv… read more

Similar categories in Madi Sinha's The White Coat Diaries book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan

21. The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

By: Brian Conaghan

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

`Child experts will tell you that I'm way too young to carry such a burden of responsibility on my … read more

Similar categories in Brian Conaghan's The Weight of a Thousand Feathers book and Cammie McGovern's A Step Toward Falling

  • young adult contemporary
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Because paper is a thing,"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Think positive... Stay positive... Be positive?"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

"And all I want to do is tell her that she should have no shame, but for some reason I choose not to. I do the tasks impassively, as if she were a mannequin, a non-human. And that fucking shame is all…"

-Brian Conaghan, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers

14 best-selling fiction books like A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern

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Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

L.M. Elliott

3.73

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Highly Illogical Behavior

John Corey Whaley

3.91

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The Beginning of Everything

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3.84

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Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.82

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3.81

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The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

Holly Bourne

4.16

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3.28

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