REALISTIC FICTION
Grades 4-6 Made up stories about things
that might have happened for real!!
FIREGIRL
by Tony Abbott
A middle school boy’s life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns,
starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
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ON MY HONOR
by Marion Dane Bauer
When his best friend drowns while they were swimming
in a dangerous river that they had promised never to go near,
Joel is terrified at having to tell both sets of parents.
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by Beverly Cleary
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping
with his parents’ divorce, being the new boy in school, and finding his own place in life.
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WALK TWO MOONS
by Sharon Creech
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents
take a car trip retracing her mother’s route. Along the way,
Sal talks about her friend whose mother also left.
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FRINDLE
by Andrew Clements
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher’s love of the dictionary around on her,
clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly
moves beyond his control.
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THE WATSONS GO TO
BIRMINGHAM
1963
by Christopher Paul
CurtisThe ordinary interactions of the Watsons, an African American
family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit
Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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Because of Winn Dixie
By Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida,
and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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The Broken Bike Boy and the
Queen of 33rd Street
by Sharon G. Flake
Ten-year-old Queen, a spoiled and conceited African American girl who is disliked
by most of her classmates, learns a lesson about friendship from
an unlikely “knight in shining armor"
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Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman
People of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot
into aproductive and beautiful garden,
and in doing so,the gardeners are themselves transformed.
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From the Mixed-up Files of
Mrs.Basil E Frankenweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
When a brother and sister run away to live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
they found a statue at the Museum so beautiful they could not go home
until they had discovered its maker.
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The View from Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and
attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic,
who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade
class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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Swindle
by Gordon Korman
After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card,
Griffin Bing must put together a band of
misfits to break into Swindle’s compound and recapture the card.
Their adventure includes a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system,
a very secret hiding place, and their general inability to drive.
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Paint the Wind
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan,
leaves her extremely restricted life in
California to stay with her mother’s family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she
discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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His family’s bad fortune continues as Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish
correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure,
and a new sense of himself.
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MANIAC MAGEE
by Jerry Spinelli
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary,
as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
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