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[Grades: 6+] Realistic Fiction for Middle Schoolers
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REALISTIC FICTION is a genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people.
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Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War
Paperback (Ember Sept. 14, 2004)
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Patricia Reilly Giff
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Paperback (Yearling May 11, 2004)
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Meg Medina
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Hardcover (Candlewick Sept. 11, 2018)
Robin Benway
Far from the Tree
eBook (HarperTeen Oct. 3, 2017)
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Susan Beth Pfeffer
Life as We Knew It
Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers May 1, 2008)
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Renée Watson
Piecing Me Together
Paperback (Bloomsbury YA June 5, 2018)
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Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
eBook (Puffin Books April 12, 2004)
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Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers May 2, 2011)
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Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl
Paperback (Ember May 14, 2002)
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Jason Reynolds
Ghost
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers Aug. 29, 2017)
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Gordon Korman
Restart
Paperback (Scholastic Press March 27, 2018)
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John David Anderson
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
Paperback (Walden Pond Press April 4, 2017)
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Sarah Weeks
So B. It
Paperback (HarperCollins Oct. 4, 2005)
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Ann E. Burg
All the Broken Pieces
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks March 1, 2012)
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Susan Patron, Matt Phelan
The Higher Power of Lucky
Hardcover (Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books Nov. 7, 2006)
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Susin Nielsen
We Are All Made of Molecules
Paperback (Ember May 10, 2016)
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Carl Hiaasen
Flush
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers Sept. 13, 2005)
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Sally Nicholls
Ways to Live Forever
eBook (Marion Lloyd Books March 1, 2012)
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Aisha Saeed
Amal Unbound
Hardcover (Nancy Paulsen Books May 8, 2018)
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Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Paperback (Speak Oct. 27, 2015)
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Lesley M. M. Blume
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers July 11, 2006)
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Hate U Give
Paperback (Walker Books Ltd March 15, 2018)
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Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
Paperback (Puffin Books April 12, 2004)
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Padma Venkatraman
The Bridge Home
Paperback (Puffin Books April 14, 2020)
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Katherine Paterson
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Hardcover (HarperCollins Jan. 5, 2016)
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E. L. Konigsburg
The View from Saturday
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers Feb. 1, 1998)
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Leslie Connor
Waiting for Normal
Hardcover (Katherine Tegen Books Feb. 5, 2008)
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S. E. Hinton
The Outsiders
Paperback (Speak April 20, 2006)
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Nicola Yoon
The Sun Is Also a Star
Hardcover (Delacorte Press Nov. 1, 2016)
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Sheila Kelly Welch
Waiting to Forget
Paperback (namelos Oct. 1, 2011)
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Erin Entrada Kelly
Hello Universe
Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print Jan. 10, 2019)
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Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Oct. 14, 1998)
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
Paperback (Square Fish May 10, 2011)
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Holly Goldberg Sloan
Counting by 7s
Paperback (Puffin Books Sept. 16, 2014)
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Christopher Paul Curtis
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Paperback (Yearling Sept. 8, 1997)
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Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Paperback (Speak April 6, 2006)
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Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid
Hardcover (Disney-Hyperion May 4, 2010)
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Wendelin Van Draanen
Flipped
eBook (Knopf Books for Young Readers Dec. 18, 2008)
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Gordon Korman
Ungifted
Hardcover (Balzer + Bray Aug. 21, 2012)
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Joan Bauer
Close to Famous
Paperback (Puffin Books Jan. 5, 2012)
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Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons
Paperback (HarperCollins June 18, 2019)
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Raina Telgemeier
Smile
Paperback (Graphix Feb. 1, 2010)
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Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park
Hardcover (St. Martin's Griffin Feb. 26, 2013)
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Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Paperback (MTV Books Feb. 1, 1999)
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Jack Gantos
Dead End in Norvelt
Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Sept. 13, 2011)
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Gordon Korman
Schooled
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Aug. 26, 2008)
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Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me
Hardcover (Wendy Lamb Books July 14, 2009)
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Leslie Connor
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
Paperback (Katherine Tegen Books Dec. 5, 2017)
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Sheila Turnage
Three Times Lucky
Paperback (Puffin Books Dec. 31, 2013)
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Wendy Mass
A Mango-Shaped Space
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Oct. 19, 2005)
Y
Jo Knowles
See You at Harry's
Paperback (Candlewick Aug. 6, 2013)
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Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Fish in a Tree
Paperback (Puffin Books March 28, 2017)
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Wendy Mass
11 Birthdays: A Wish Novel
Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks Jan. 1, 2010)
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E.L. Konigsburg
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers Sept. 25, 2007)
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R. J. Palacio
Wonder
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers Feb. 14, 2012)
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Rob Buyea
Because of Mr. Terupt
Paperback (Yearling Oct. 11, 2011)
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Cynthia Lord
Rules
Hardcover (Scholastic Press April 1, 2006)
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Wendy Mass
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Feb. 1, 2008)
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Gary D. Schmidt
Orbiting Jupiter
Paperback (Clarion Books May 2, 2017)
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Donna Gephart
How to Survive Middle School
Paperback (Yearling Aug. 9, 2011)
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Jasmine Warga
Other Words for Home
Hardcover (Balzer + Bray May 28, 2019)
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Kwame Alexander
The Crossover
Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers March 5, 2019)
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Jacqueline Woodson
Harbor Me
Hardcover (Nancy Paulsen Books Aug. 28, 2018)
Y
Gordon Korman
Pop
Paperback (Balzer + Bray Jan. 18, 2011)
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Kathryn Erskine
Mockingbird
Paperback (Puffin Books Feb. 3, 2011)
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Lynda Mullaly Hunt
One for the Murphys
Paperback (Puffin Books May 16, 2013)
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Katherine Hannigan
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and
Paperback (Greenwillow Books March 29, 2011)
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Carl Hiaasen
Scat
Paperback (Yearling Feb. 28, 2012)
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Sharon Creech
Heartbeat
Paperback (Harper360 Dec. 26, 2012)
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Wendy Mass
Every Soul A Star
Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Oct. 1, 2008)
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Jason Reynolds
As Brave As You
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers May 9, 2017)
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John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Paperback (Penguin Books April 8, 2014)
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Jenny Han
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Jan. 26, 2016)
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Carl Hiaasen
Chomp
Paperback (Ember March 12, 2013)
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Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers June 14, 2005)
Y
Sarah Dessen
What Happened to Goodbye
Paperback (Speak April 9, 2013)
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Stephanie S. Tolan
Surviving the Applewhites
Paperback (HarperCollins April 24, 2012)
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Soman Chainani, Iacopo Bruno
The School for Good and Evil
Paperback (HarperCollins Sept. 4, 2018)
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Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride
Paperback (Speak April 5, 2011)
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Lynne Kelly
Song for a Whale
Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers Feb. 5, 2019)
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Paul Aertker
Brainwashed: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery & International Adventure Series Book 1
Paperback (Flying Solo Press LLC Jan. 13, 2014)
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Suzanne LaFleur
Love, Aubrey
Paperback (Yearling Feb. 8, 2011)
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Kate DiCamillo
Because of Winn-Dixie
Paperback (Candlewick Dec. 8, 2015)
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Jay Asher
Thirteen Reasons Why
Mass Market Paperback (Penguin UK Jan. 1, 2017)
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Sharon M. Draper
Out of My Mind
Paperback (Atheneum Books for Young Readers May 1, 2012)
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Ali Benjamin
The Thing About Jellyfish
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers April 4, 2017)
Angie Thomas
On The Come Up
Hardcover (Balzer + Bray Feb. 5, 2019)
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James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts, Laura Park
Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
Paperback (Little, Brown and Company Nov. 6, 2012)
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E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Aug. 25, 2009)
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Carl Hiaasen
Hoot
Paperback (Yearling Dec. 27, 2005)
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Lois Lowry
The Giver
Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers July 1, 1993)
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