Ms. Jacqueline Shaw-----English Department-----Reading Assignment: Realistic Fiction

Bibliography: Realistic Fiction
Sorted by Author / Title.
F ALE	Alexie, Sherman, 1966-. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
F AND	Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. New York : Viking, 2009. Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
F ARM	Armstrong, William Howard, 1914-. Sounder. New York : HarperCollins, c1969. Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
F COR	Corriveau, Art. How I, Nicky Flynn, finally get a life (and a dog) : a novel. New York : Amulet Books, c2010. Nicky Flynn's life gets all turned around when his parents divorce and he is forced to start a new life in a new town and school; but when his mother brings home Reggie, a former seeing-eye dog, from a shelter, Nicky begins to put his life back into perspective.
F CRE	Creech, Sharon. Heartbeat. 1st ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2004. Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
F DES	Dessen, Sarah. Along for the ride : a novel. New York : Viking, 2009. Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
F Des	Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland : a novel. New York : Viking, 2000. After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
F DES PB	Dessen, Sarah. That summer. New York : Puffin Books, 1998. During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.
F FIT	Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the spy. New York : Delacorte Press, [2000]. Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
F GEO PB	George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Julie's wolf pack. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1997. Continues the story of Julie and her wolves in which Kapu must protect his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership.
F GRE PB	Green, Tim, 1963-. Football hero. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2009, c2008. When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
F HOL	Holt, Kimberly Willis. When Zachary Beaver came to town. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1999. During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
F KLI PB	Klise, Kate. Deliver us from Normal. New York : Scholastic, [2006], c2005. With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
F KON	Konigsburg, E. L. Silent to the bone. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2000. When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
F KOR	Korman, Gordon. No more dead dogs. New York : Scholastic, 2002, c2000. Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
F LOR	Lord, Cynthia. Rules. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2006. Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
F LOW PB	Lowry, Lois. Autumn street. New York : Dell, 1982, c1980. When her father goes to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and sister to her grandfather's house where she learns to face up to the always puzzling and often cruel realities of the adult world.
F LUP	Lupica, Mike. The batboy. New York : Philomel Books, c2010. Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
F LUP	Lupica, Mike. Summer ball. New York : Philomel Books, c2007. Thirteen-year-old Danny must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against new rivals at a summer basketball camp.
F LUP	Lupica, Mike. Travel team. New York : Philomel Books, c2004. After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
F LUP	Lupica, Mike. The underdogs. New York : Philomel Books, c2011. Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
F MAR	Martin, Ann M., 1955-. A corner of the universe. New York : Scholastic, [2004], c2002. The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
F MYE PB	Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Somewhere in the darkness. New York : Scholastic Signature, [2003?], c1992. A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both.
F NAY PB	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Sang Spell. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000, c1998. When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across country, and finds himself trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.
F NAY PB	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1991. Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
F PAT	Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. New York : HarperCollins, c1977. The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
F PAT	Paterson, Katherine. Jacob have I loved. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1980. Filled with resentment over the attention showered upon her twin sister, and awaiting the day she can leave her town behind, young Louise meets a wise old sea captain and begins learning how to let go of her anger.
F PAU	Paulsen, Gary. Brian's winter. New York : Scholastic, 1996. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
F PAU	Paulsen, Gary. The foxman. New York : Viking, 1990, c1977. A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
F SHU	Shulman, Mark, 1962-. Scrawl : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2010. When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.
F SMI	Smiley, Jane. A good horse. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010. On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
F SPI	Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1990. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
F SPI	Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1997. As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
F TAS	Tashjian, Janet. Vote for Larry. 1st ed. New York : Holt, c2004. Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of hiding and returns to public life, this time to run for President as an advocate for issues of concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout.
F WHI	White, Ruth, 1942-. Belle Prater's boy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.