Realistic Fiction

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

Please click each title for an individual book summary and review, with a list of topics and themes, awards, and related book recommendations.

School-Focused

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

New Kid
No Talking
Nothing But the Truth
Posted
The Report Card
Sahara Special
Schooled
Supergifted (Ungifted, #2)
Ungifted

Serious / Crisis

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
After Ever After
After Iris    
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
Lily and Dunkin
Locomotion
Lost in the Sun
Maybe He Just Likes You  
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
Sparrow
Speak
Threads
The Tiger Rising
A Time to Dance
We Are Okay
The World Ends in April

Lighter:
Fun, Friendships, & Relationships

Abby Spencer Goes to Hollywood
Big Nate In a Class By Himself
Click
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
Liberty Porter, First Daughter (series)
My Life in Pink and Green

Nerd Camp
The Tapper Twins (series)
TBH This is So Awkward  

Realistic Fiction
with a Fantasy Element

See also: Fantasy Books

All the Answers
Circa Now
A Drop of Hope
Elephant Secret (sci-fi element)
A Gift of Magic

If I Were You
Jake and Lily
The Lost Girl
Me and Marvin Gardens
Rules for Stealing Stars     
A Snicker of Magic
The Swap
A Tangle of Knots
Unidentified Suburban Object
Zoey and Sassafras

All Other Realistic Fiction

Absolutely Almost
Amazing Grace
Athlete vs. Mathlete
Because of Mr. Terupt
Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
Blended
Blue Jasmine
A Boy Called Bat
The Cardturner
Caterpillar Summer    
Count Me In
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
A Good Kind of Trouble    
Grandmaster
A Handful of Stars
The Higher Power of Lucky
Holes
Home of the Brave    
Hope Was Here
The House That Lou Built
I Kill the Mockingbird 
Ida B.
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Karma Khullar's Mustache
Knockout
Lights, Camera, Disaster
Listen, Slowly
Losers Take All
Maniac Magee
Mascot
Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
The Next Great Paulie Fink    
Not If I Can Help It    
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
The Pros of Cons
Rachel Spinelli
Rebel McKenzie
Roll With It
Same Sun Here
Sassy  
A Season of Daring Greatly     
Slider
Small Steps
Some Places More Than Others   
Song for a Whale  
Stargazing    
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
The Sweetest Sound
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Tumbling
We Are Party People

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