HIT: Realistic Fiction

[Barbara Shapiro <SchnzrsGrl@AOL.COM>]

Thanks for all who responded. Several people requested a hit, so here it is!
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Robert Kimmel Smith's books

War with Grandpa
Jelly Belly
Mostly Michael
Bobby Baseball

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Any of the Dear America or Royal Diaries are good.

Out of the Dust

Treasures in the Dust

Mr. Lincoln's Drummer

Traitor among us

Lily's crossing

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Dovey Coe, No More Dead Dogs, When Zachery Beaver Came To Town (any by Holt)=
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Jerry Spinelli books such as his latest, Loser.=A0 Ben Mickaelsen books.=A0=20
Because of Winn-Dixie, Alice books for girls.
Joey Pigza books

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Two of Barbara Parks books-=A0 Mick Harte was Here, Graduation of Jake Moon=20=
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always popular

I am using The Jacket by ANdrew Clements with a book club (also like his new=
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one A week in the Woods - good for boys)

Sally Warners books are also good (the titles escape me)

And for you more YA readers all the Caroline Cooney books especially the fac=
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on the milk carton books

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The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill is one of my favorites.=A0 The story is set
sometime in the 1970's, and the plot is so realistic that the reader can
easily believe that there really was a "war" among the pushcart vendors in
New York City.=A0 After reading it, I direct the students to the copyright
date (written in Roman Numerals), and when they figure out the story was
written before the events in the book, it generates great discussion of a
well-written realistic fiction book.=A0=20
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Judy Blume's Fudge series, of course!=A0 (and a few others: It's not the end=
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the world)
Judy Moody,=20
Lowry's Anastasia books
Bauer, Marion, question of trust, on my honor (kids never want to read this=20
one though)
Naylor's Boys start the war series
Cleary, Ramona etc. Dear Mr. Henshaw=20
Jack Gantos has three books about Joey Pigza.=A0

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Betsy Byars as an author for realistic fiction
DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie
Gantos Joey Pigza series
Lois Lowry's Anastasia and Sam books
Kvasnosky One lucky summer

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Barb Shapiro
LMS
Schnzrsgrl@aol.com
Monroe Twp. Schools
Monroe Twp., NJ 08831

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