Realistic Fiction

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Realistic Fiction
Call Number F XXX 1st 3 letters of authors last
name

• Books in the genre, realistic fiction tell
  stories about characters and experiences that
  could occur in our daily lives.

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Alice BooksPhyllis Naylor
Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of
seventh grade while advising her father and older
brother on their love lives.
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As Ever, GordyMary Downing Hahn
Gordy is a painfully believable teen-ager--angry
with the very people who love him and trapped by
the town's knee-jerk judgment of his family.
Gordy seems destined for reform school until his
family and Elizabeth reveal how much they care
for him.
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Baby-Sitting is a Dangerous JobWillo Davis
Roberts

• An ordinary sitting job turns into a nightmare
  for 13-year-old Darcy when kidnappers invade the
  house and carry off the children PW found this a
  mystery characterized by "electrifying suspense."

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BABYPatricia MacLachlan

• Taking care of a baby left with them at the end
  of the tourist season helps a family come to
  terms with the death of their own infant son.

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BAT 6Virginia Wolff

• In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one
  sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual
  softball game, during which one girl's bigotry
  comes to the surface

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Escaping the Giant Waveby Peg Kehret

• An earthquake, followed by a tsunami, hits the
  Oregon coast where 13-year-old Kyle is
  vacationing with his family. His parents are out
  on a boat. Kyle must get his younger sister out
  of the burning hotel to safety by himself.

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The Best Bad Thing Yoshiko Uchida

• In this story there are many suprises. So if you
  would like to read a great, humorous, realistic,
  and surprising story, you should read The Best
  Bad Thing.

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Bud, Not BuddyChristopher Paul Curtis

• Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
  Michigan escapes a bad foster home and sets out
  in search of the man he believes to be his
  father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway.

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Come Sing, Jimmy JoKatherine Paterson

• When his family becomes a successful country
  music group and makes him a featured singer,
  eleven-year-old James has to deal with big
  changes in all aspects of his life, even his
  name.

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Freak the MightyRodman Philbrick

• At the beginning of eighth grade, Max, who has a
  learning disability, and his new friend Freak,
  whose birth defect has affected his body but not
  his brilliant mind, find that when they combine
  forces they make a powerful team.

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Kira-KiraCynthia Kadohata

• Lynn and Kate have trouble adjusting when their
  parents move the family from Iowa to a small town
  in rural Georgia. They seldom see their parents,
  who have grueling jobs in chicken-processing
  plants. Then Lynn becomes deathly ill, and Katie
  is often left to care for her, a difficult and
  emotionally devastating

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Silent to the BoneE.L. Konigsburg
Thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of
speech after being wrongly accused of gravely
injuring his baby half-sister, and only his
friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover
the truth about what happened.
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Is Anybody There?Eve Bunting

• After discovering the disappearance of several
  household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old
  latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be
  prowling around inside his house while he's at
  school and his mother is at work.

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Becoming Naomi LeonPam Munoz Ryan

• When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim
  her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her
  great-grandmother and younger brother in search
  of her father.

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WhirligigPaul Fleischman

• While traveling to each corner of the country to
  build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose
  death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds
  forgiveness and atonement

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PinballsBetsy Byars
Three lonely foster children learn to care about
themselves and each other.
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FrindleAndrew Clements

• Nicholas is a bright boy who likes to make
  trouble at school, creatively. When he decides to
  torment his fifth-grade English teacher, Mrs.
  Granger (who is just as smart as he is), by
  getting everyone in the class to replace the word
  "pen" with "frindle," he unleashes a series of
  events that rapidly spins out of control.

Science Fiction
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BluishVirginia Hamilton

• Ten-year-old Dreenie feels both intrigued and
  frightened when she thinks about the girl
  nicknamed Bluish, whose leukemia is making her
  pale and causing her to use a wheelchair

Concerned that her grandmother may die, Cammy is
unprepared for the accidental death of another
relative.
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Mick Harte Was HereBarbara Park

• Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls the death of her
  younger brother Mick in a bicycle accident, which
  might not have been fatal had he been wearing his
  helmet, and how she and her family reacted to the
  tragedy. Closes with an appeal to bikers to wear
  protective bicycle helmets.

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Brians WinterGary Paulsen

• Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as
  in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays
  what would have happened to Brian had he been
  forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with
  only his survival pack and hatchet.

Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting
for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a
strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed
American soldier who decides to help him get
across the border.
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The SkirtGary Soto

• When Miata leaves her skirt that she is to wear
  in a dance performance on the school bus, she
  needs all her wits to get it back without her
  parents' finding out that she has again lost
  something.

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One-Eyed CatPaula Fox

• An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his
  new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt,
  and eventually assumes responsibility for it.

Monkey Island
Forced to live on the streets of New York after
his mother disappears from their hotel room,
eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who
help him survive
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What Jamie SawCarolyn Coman

• Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer
  after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his
  baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie
  finds himself living an existence full of
  uncertainty and fear.

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My Louisiana SkyKimberly Willis Holt

• Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s,
  twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her
  feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother,
  her mentally slow parents, and her good friend
  and neighbor, Jesse.

During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town,
thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal
meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound
Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
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Wake Me At MidnightBarthe de Clements
Wake Me At Midnight

• Caitlin investigates some mysterious goings on in
  her neighborhood, such as who is digging in the
  neighbor's yard at midnight, why does Bones never
  have enough to eat, and what are the Dorman
  brothers storing in their locked toolshed.

6th Grade Can Really Kill You
Helen fears that lack of improvement in her
reading may leave her stuck in the sixth grade
forever, until a good teacher recognizes her
reading problem.
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FlippedWendelin Van Draanen

• In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe
  how their feelings about themselves, each other,
  and their families have changed over the years.

Mystery series by this author
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A Face FirstPriscilla Cummings

• Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact
  with her friends and classmates after suffering
  third-degree burns to her face and body in a car
  accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island

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Pictures of Hollis WoodsPatricia Reilly Giff

• A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying
  with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers
  the only other time she was happy in a foster
  home, with a family that truly seemed to care
  about her.

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The Skin Im InSharon Flake

• Thirteen-year-old Maleeka Madison, insecure about
  her very dark skin, rejects the support of a new
  teacher, Miss Saunders, whose skin looks blotched
  because of a rare medical condition--but soon
  Maleeka begins to see that Miss Saunders could be
  a role model, and that she must learn to love
  herself and accept love from others.

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the KeyJack Gantos

• To the constant disappointment of his mother and
  his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention
  or controlling his mood swings when his
  prescription meds wear off and he starts getting
  worked up and acting wired.

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Ruby HollerSharon Creech

• Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and
  Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but
  their lives change forever when an eccentric but
  sweet older couple invites them each on an
  adventure, beginning in an almost magical place
  called Ruby Holler.

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