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Adventure | Fantasy | Historical Fiction | Mysteries | REALISTIC FICTION | Nonfiction/Biography

RECOMMENDED REALISTIC & CONTEMPORARY FICTION
These are the stories of today — kids of all ages, having fun, facing challenges, getting along with their friends and families.

AUTHOR

TITLE

Abelove, Joan

Saying It Out Loud

Avi

Blue Heron
Nothing But the Truth

Banks, Lynne Reid

Angela and Diabola

Bauer, Joan

Hope Was Here
Thwonk

Block, Francesca

Weetzie Bat
I Was a Teenage Fairy

Bloor, Edward

Tangerine

Blume, Judy

Just as Long as We’re Together

Brooks, Bruce

The Moves Make the Man

Byars, Betsy

Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (series)

Cabot, Meg

The Princess Diaries

Cameron, Ann

The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods

Christopher, Matt

Dirt Bike Racer

Coman, Carolyn

Tell Me Everything

Conly, Jane Leslie

Crazy Lady

Cooney, Caroline

Flight #116 is Down

Cormier, Robert

The Chocolate War
We All Fall Down

Couloumbis, Audrey

Getting Near to Baby

Creech, Sharon

Absolutely Normal Chaos
The Wanderer

Crew, Linda

Children of the River
Long Time Passing

Crutcher, Chris

Stotan
Ironman

Danziger, Paula

P.S. Longer Letter Later
Snail Mail No More

DeClements, Barthe

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

DiCamillo, Kate

Because of Winn-Dixie

Drannen, Wendelin Van

How I Survived Being a Girl

Draper, Sharon

Forged by Fire

Deuker, Carl

On the Devil’s Court

Fenner, Carol

Yolanda’s Genius

Fleischman, Paul

Whirligig

Frank, Lucy

I am an Artichoke
Oy, Joy!

Freymann-Weyr, Garret

When I was Older

Gantos, Jack

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza Loses Control

Garden, Nancy

Holly’s Secret

Griffin, Adele

The Other Shepards

Hahn, Mary Downing

Daphne’s Book

Hautzig, Deborah

Second Star to the Right

Henkes, Kevin

The Birthday Room

Hinton, S.E.

The Outsiders

Holm, Jennifer

Our Only May Amelia

Holt, Kimberly

My Louisiana Sky
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Johnson, Angela

Heaven

Jukes, Mavis

Cinderella 2000
Expecting the Unexpected

Kerr, M.E.

Fell
What Became of Her

Klass, David

You Don’t Know Me

Konigsburg, E.L.

The View from Saturday

Koss, Amy Goldman

The Girls

Knowles, John

A Separate Peace

Levine, Gail Carson

The Wish

Lipsyte, Robert

The Contender

Lowry, Lois

Anastasia on Her Own (series)

Lynch, Chris

Iceman

Mazer, Harry

The War on Villa Street

Mazer, Norma Fox

Silver
After the Rain

McKay, Hilary

The Exiles

Myers, Walter Dean

Scorpions
SLAM
Monster

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

The Grooming of Alice (series)
Ice

Nolan, Han

Dancing on the Edge

Osborne, Mary Pope

Run, Run, Run as Fast as You Can

Park, Barbara

Beanpole

Paterson, Katherine

Bridge to Terabithia
The Great Gilly Hopkins

Paulsen, Gary

Car
The Beet Fields

Peck, Richard

A Year Down Yonder
Princess Ashley

Perl, Lila

The Secret Diary of Katie Dinkerhoff

Pevsner, Stella

Sister of the Quints

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Make Believe

Philbrick, Rodman

Freak the Mighty

Rennison, Louise

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Roberts, Willo Davis

Don’t Hurt Laurie

Ross, Adrienne

In the Quiet

Sachar, Louis

The Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Holes

Shalant, Phyllis

The Transformation of Faith Futterman

Slote, Alfred

Finding Buck McHenry

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley

The Witches of Worm
The Runaways

Soto, Gary

Taking Sides

Spinelli, Jerry

Space-Station Seventh Grade
Wringer

Strasser, Todd

Give a Boy a Gun

Tashjian, Janet

True Confessions

Voigt, Cynthia

Homecoming (series)
It’s Not Easy Being Bad

Weeks, Sarah

Regular Guy

Weston, Carol

The Diary of Melanie Martin

White, Ruth

Memories of Summer

Wolff, Virginia Euwer

Bat 6
Make Lemonade

Woodson, Jacqueline

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This

Zindel, Paul

The Pigman

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Adventure | Fantasy | Historical Fiction | Mysteries | REALISTIC FICTION | Nonfiction/Biography | other reading lists

updated 16-Jan-2005

updated 16-Aug-2006