Juvenile Realistic Fiction

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Edwina follows in the footsteps of her namesake great-aunt when she begins to write letters to the mayor about community problems and poses as Edwina the elder.

Tormented by taunts that her father is in prison, thirteen-year-old Queenie retaliates by causing a lot of trouble until she discovers something important about her father and herself.

With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.

Gloria shares special times with her mother and father and with her friends Julian, Huey, and Latisha.

Fourth grader Jake Drake confronts the problems of school life and finds some surprising solutions!

Nine-year-old Robby loves his noisy and somewhat unconventional family, but unwanted attention from a counselor and a bully at school make him self-conscious about just how unconventional his family might look to outsiders.

Eleven-year-old aspiring artist Skate experiences many changes when she enters middle school, finds her best friend drifting away from her, and loses her beloved great-uncle.

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

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.

Intrepid eleven-year-old journalist Casey Smith writes investigative stories for the school's newspaper.

Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.

Dexter's well-ordered life is disrupted by his uneasy interactions with his spontaneous, even zany, fourth-grade teacher Mr. Ditzwinkle and by his mother's campaign for reelection to the town's school board.

The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry.

Twelve-year-old Judson Moon is the first kid to run for president, and the race looks promising. What if he actually gets enough votes to win?

In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.

Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another candidate win the nomination for class president.

Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.

Bad moods never last long with the irrepressible Judy Moody.

In a series of episodes, fifth grader Lila Fenwick has some truly amazing "Great Ideas" that get her out of and into all kinds of trouble.

The twins solve mysteries and have fun in various locales.

Told through prose, journal entries, and line drawings, the story follows Abby as she looks for a way to shine in her family of superstars.

Twelve-year-old Julius has his hands full over the summer when his mother attempts to improve his grades and teach him responsibility by signing him up for a French class and getting him a job babysitting.

A ten-year-old draws and writes about her daily life in journals.

Jenny is discouraged when her second grade penpal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.

When Miata leaves on the school bus the skirt that she is to wear in a dance performance, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents' finding out that she has lost something yet again.

Teddy and his little brother Bobby devise strategies using bugs to defeat the school bully.