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Books like Keeping It Real

24 titles for readers of Keeping It Real by Paula Chase, selected for shared themes: Peer Pressure, Clothing & Dress, Alternative Family, and Adolescence & Coming of Age.

Peer Pressure Clothing & Dress Alternative Family Adolescence & Coming of Age Stories in Verse Social Topics Girls & Women African American & Black People & Places Friendship Family Poetry Social Themes United States Juvenile Nonfiction Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Keeping It Real

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Turning Point

Paula Chase

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse

Better Together, Cinderella

Ashley Franklin

Themes: Alternative Family • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Partly Cloudy

Tanita S. Davis

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Serena Says

Tanita Davis

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

Indigo Dreaming

Dinah Johnson

Themes: Stories in Verse • Girls & Women • African American & Black

I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!

Betty K. Bynum

Themes: Clothing & Dress • Social Topics • Girls & Women

My Hair

Danielle Murrell Cox

Themes: Clothing & Dress • Stories in Verse • Girls & Women

Unfadeable Know Your Power. Fight the Power

Maurice Broaddus

Themes: Stories in Verse • Social Topics • Girls & Women

No Laughter Here

Rita Williams-Garcia

Themes: Social Topics • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#10

To Be Perfectly Honest A Novel Based on an Untrue Story

Sonya Sones

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • Social Topics

#11

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

Janae Marks

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse

#12

The Everybody Experiment

Lisa Moore Ramée

Themes: Peer Pressure • Social Topics • African American & Black

#13

Zuri Ray Tries Ballet

Tami Charles

Themes: Stories in Verse • Social Topics • African American & Black

#14

The Mcclure Twins Make It Fashion

Ava McClure

Themes: Clothing & Dress • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#15

Fresh Princess: Style Rules!

Denene Millner

Themes: Clothing & Dress • Stories in Verse • Girls & Women

#16

Solo

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Social Topics • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#17

This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kacen Callender

Themes: Social Topics • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#18

A Soft Place to Land

Janae Marks

Themes: Alternative Family • Adolescence & Coming of Age • African American & Black

#19

Layla’s Happiness

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Themes: Social Topics • African American & Black • People & Places

#20

Rain Remembers

Courtne Comrie

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • African American & Black

#21

Envy: A Luxe Novel

Anna Godbersen

Themes: Clothing & Dress • Adolescence & Coming of Age • Girls & Women

#22

Crimes of the Sarahs

Kristen Tracy

Themes: Peer Pressure • Social Topics • Girls & Women

#23

Conjure Island

Eden Royce

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#24

The Moon Within

Aida Salazar

Themes: Adolescence & Coming of Age • Stories in Verse • People & Places

Fans of Keeping It Real by Paula Chase will find 24 titles here, all united by Peer Pressure, Clothing & Dress, Alternative Family. Authors represented include Paula Chase, Ashley Franklin, Tanita S. Davis, Tanita Davis, and others.