Realistic Fiction - Ideas for Learners

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
Bright
Clique Here
Don't Judge Me
Dress Coded
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Fish in a Tree
Focused
Frankie Sparks, Third Grade Inventor
The Hundred Dresses
Jennifer Chan is Not Alone
Lunch Money
Margie Kelly Breaks the Dress Code

New Kid
No Talking
Nothing But the Truth
Posted
The Queen Bee and Me
The Report Card
Sahara Special
Schooled
Supergifted (Ungifted, #2)
Those Kids from Fawn Creek
Ungifted

Serious / Crisis

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; Magical Realism

See also: Fantasy Books

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

If I Were You
It's The End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit
Jake and Lily
The Lost Girl
Odessa Again
One Jar of Magic
Me and Marvin Gardens
Rules for Stealing Stars
A Snicker of Magic
The Swap
A Tangle of Knots
That Thing About Bollywood
Unidentified Suburban Object
When You Trap a Tiger
Zoey and Sassafras

All Other Realistic Fiction

Absolutely Almost
Ahimsa
Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year
Air by Monica Roe
All You Knead is Love
Amazing Grace
Athlete vs. Mathlete
Attack of the Black Rectangles
Barakah Beats
Barely Floating
Because of Mr. Terupt
Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
Better with Butter
Bhai for Now
Billy Miller Makes a Wish
Blended
Blue Jasmine
A Boy Called Bat
The Cardturner
Caterpillar Summer
Con Quest!
Count Me In
Courage for Beginners
The Courage Test
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Dara Palmer's Major Drama
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Ellen Outside the Lines
Every Shiny Thing
Everything on a Waffle
Fast Pitch
The First Rule of Punk
Flipping Forward, Twisting Backward
Forget Me Not
Free Thaddeus!
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Front Desk
The Garden of My Imaan
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Ghost
Ghosts
Gold Medal Summer
Golden Girl
Good Different
A Good Kind of Trouble
Grandmaster
Growing Pangs
A Handful of Stars
The Higher Power of Lucky
Holes
Home of the Brave
Hope Was Here
The House That Lou Built
Huda F Are You?
I Kill the Mockingbird
Ida B.
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
If You Read This
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Isaiah Dunn is My Hero

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle
Karma Khullar's Mustache
Knockout
Lasagna Means I Love You
The Liar's Daughter
Lights, Camera, Disaster
Listen, Slowly
Losers Take All
Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Maniac Magee
Mascot
Merci Suarez Can't Dance
Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
Mirror to Mirror
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
My Life as a Diamond
The Next Great Paulie Fink
Not If I Can Help It
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
Perfectly Parvin
Pippa Park Raises Her Game
Playing Through the Turnaround
The Pros of Cons
Rachel Spinelli
Rebel McKenzie
Roll With It
Same Sun Here
Sassy
The Science of Breakable Things
A Season of Daring Greatly
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Slider
Small Steps
Some Places More Than Others
Song for a Whale
Starfish
Stargazing
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
Stuntboy: In the Meantime
The Sweetest Sound
Things Seen from Above
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Tumbling
Unsettled
We Are Party People
With the Fire on High
Yusuf Azeem is Not a Hero

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