Realistic Fiction

For Middle School Students

 

Lump in the Middle by C. S. Adler
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Just As Long As We're Together by Judy Blume
Vanishing by Bruce Brooks
Angels Turn Their Backs by Margaret Buffie
Amazing Gracie by A. E. Cannon
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Goats by Cole Brock
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
Crazy Lady by Ellen Conford
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Divorce Express by Paula Danziger
In Lane Three, Alex Archer by Tessa Duder
The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
Men of Stone by Gayle Friesen
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Toning the Sweep by Angela Johnson
Never So Green by Tim Johnston
Alice I Think by Susan Juby
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place and Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
Losing Joe's Place and No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss
Memiors of a Book Bat by Kathryn Lasky
One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
Slot Machine by Chris Lynch
Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Zazoo by Richard Mosher
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Walk Home with Marie-Claire by Kirsty Murray
Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Earthshine by Theresa Nelson
The Boy Who Owned the School by Gary Paulsen
Define "Normal" by Julie Ann Peters
The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star by Randy Powell
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
A Fine Whit Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon
Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Fisher Staples
CON-fidence by Todd Strasser
Rain Catchers by Jean Thesman
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draane
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
What's in a Name by Ellen Wittlinger
Lena and Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Landing on Marvin Gardens by Roan Zable
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
 
*These authors have other titles that can also be described as fantasy -
please check the shelves or talk to a librarian for additional help.
 

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