Realistic Fiction

Book Genre Categories:
Realistic Fiction: School-Focused,    Serious/Crisis,    Lighter Friendships & Relationships,    All Other Realistic Fiction

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Realistic Fiction

School-Focused

Awkward
Ban This Book
Because of Mr. Terupt
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Fish in a Tree
Focused 
The Hundred Dresses
Lunch Money

No Talking
Nothing But the Truth
Posted
The Report Card
Sahara Special
Schooled
Ungifted

Serious / Crisis

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
After Ever After
All the Broken Pieces
Amal Unbound
Anger is a Gift
Boys Without Names
Come November
Counting By 7s
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Falling Over Sideways
Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes
The Girl in the Well is Me
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
Gracefully Grayson
Half a World Away
The Honest Truth
How to Steal a Dog
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Inside Out and Back Again
The Kidney Hypothetical
Locomotion
Lost in the Sun
Mockingbird
My Life with the Liars

OCDaniel
Olive's Ocean
On My Honor
One of the Survivors
Orbiting Jupiter
The Other Half of My Heart
The Other Side of Truth
Out of My Mind
The Paper Cowboy
Peak
Piecing Me Together
The President's Daughter (series)
The Red Thread Sisters
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Ruby on the Outside
Rules
The Running Dream
Shooting Kabul
Six Impossible Things
Speak
The Tiger Rising
A Time to Dance
We Are Okay

Lighter:
Friendships & Relationships

Abby Spencer Goes to Hollywood
Big Nate In a Class By Himself
The Dirt Diary (series)
Drive Me Crazy
The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days
Geek Girl (series)
I Have a Bad Feeling About This
I Heart Band (series)
It's Raining Cupcakes
My Life in Pink and Green

Nerd Camp
The Tapper Twins (series)

Realistic Fiction
with a Fantasy Element

All the Answers
Circa Now
A Gift of Magic

If I Were You
Jake and Lily
Me and Marvin Gardens
A Snicker of Magic
The Swap
A Tangle of Knots
Unidentified Suburban Object

All Other Realistic Fiction

Absolutely Almost
Amazing Grace
Athlete vs. Mathlete
Because of Mr. Terupt
Blended
Blue Jasmine
A Boy Called Bat
The Cardturner
Courage for Beginners
The Courage Test
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Everything on a Waffle
The First Rule of Punk
Forget Me Not
Free Thaddeus!
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Garden of My Imaan
Ghost
Ghosts
Gold Medal Summer
Grandmaster
A Handful of Stars
The Higher Power of Lucky
Holes
Hope Was Here
Ida B.
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Knockout
Listen, Slowly
Losers Take All
Maniac Magee
Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
The Pros of Cons
Rachel Spinelli
Rebel McKenzie
Slider
Small Steps
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
The Sweetest Sound
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Tumbling
We Are Party People