Favorites 4: Realistic Fiction
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The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
Over 50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging. No …
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Wind Blows Backward
by Mary Downing Hahn
Although they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by …
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Six Months to Live
by Lurlene McDaniel
When 13-year-old Dawn Rochelle is diagnosed with leukemia, she's scared. While in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy, Dawn meets Sandy, who also has cancer. Dawn and …
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Taming the Star Runner
by S. E. Hinton
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town …
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Dare
by Marilyn Halvorson
Having seen his share of troubles, fifteen-year-old Dare is convinced that the only thing keeping him at his new foster home is his love of …
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Life Without Friends
by Ellen Emerson White
After the drug-overdose death of a fellow student, Beverly breaks away from the fast crowd but finds herself friendless and full of guilt until she …
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The Road Home
by Ellen Emerson White
Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United …
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Up Country
by Alden R. Carter
When his mom is arrested for a hit-and-run accident, 16-year-old Carl is sent to live with straight-laced, clean-living relatives. All Carl wants to do is …
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Cut
by Patricia McCormick
"A tingle arced across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, …
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Letters from the Inside
by John Marsden
Two girls whose lives couldn’t be more different are brought together as pen pals in this riveting and haunting novel that’s perfect for fans of …
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So Much to Tell You
by John Marsden
Winner of Australia's Book of the Year Award. Set in Australia and written in the form of a diary, this is the tragic story of …
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Ransom
by Lois Duncan
The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom. Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A …
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The Grounding of Group 6
by Julian F. Thompson
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that …
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The Woman in the Wall
by Patrice Kindl
Anna is nearly invisible. At seven, terrified of school, shy little Anna retreats within the walls of her family's enormous house, and builds a world …
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The Face on the Milk Carton
by Caroline B. Cooney
A young girl is shocked to discover the face on a milk carton is her face when she was young. Are her parents her real …
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an …
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Nowhere High
by Jesse Maguire
Having just transferred to Ernest Norwell Nowhere High, 17-year-old T.J. McAllister is not surprised by boring classes and snobby cliques. But he doesn't expect the …
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The Books of Fell
by M. E. Kerr
A young man from the wrong side of the tracks, John Fell investigates spies, drug dealers, murders, and a decades-old disappearance case, all of which …
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A Good Courage
by Stephanie S. Tolan
Having been dragged by his mother from one commune to another as she searches for a place to belong, fourteen-year-old Ty finds conditions at the …
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But in the Fall I'm Leaving
by Ann Rinaldi
Brie's plan to leave her strict father and go live with her mother, who abandoned her as a baby, is changed when she discovers a …
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Term Paper
by Ann Rinaldi
Nicki's teacher-brother assigns her a term paper on the topic of a death in their family, in hopes that she will release long-suppressed emotion about …
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The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
Meet Mr. Pignati, a lonely old man with a beer belly and an awful secret. He's the Pigman, and he's got a great big twinkling …
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Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tish's journal is private and personal--and you won't be able to put it down. Tish writes candidly, and privately, about taking care of her brother, …
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Don't Hurt Laurie
by Willo Davis Roberts
Laurie is physically abused by her mother; can she escape, and will anyone believe her story'.
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Checkers
by John Marsden
Tonight before I started writing this, it was me confronting Jack. It was so real I could smell it. Suddenly, according to my imagination, I'd …