Items Tagged with "Realistic Fiction"
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Willow by Julia Hoban
The book Willow is about a girl named Willow whose parents die in a car accident. After they die, she goes to live with her brother David and his wife and daughter. Things between Willow and her brother are tense, and they do not talk as easily as they used to. Willow goes
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Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
I really enjoyed this book mainly because I like romantic books, and this was a very romantic book. This book is about a girl named Scarlett who gets pregnant, but before she finds out, her boyfriend dies in a car crash. Her best friend Halley, who is very shy, has
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Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald
Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots by Abby McDonald
Jenna’s life is her Green Teens organization in suburban New Jersey where she organizes petitions and protests to save what little green space remains. When it looks like her mom and dad may split up and decide to spend the sum
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Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman
Boys, Girls, and Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman
Trying to escape her middle school history with two treacherous frenemies, Charlie Healy enrolls in the neighboring high school, Harmony Falls, for her freshman year. This is Charlie’s chance for a clean slate. Unfortunately, he
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By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead. That is the promise that Daelyn makes to herself at the beginning of the book. Being bullied since kindergarten and attempting suicide more than once because of that hasn’t improved D
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Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
In this final book of the Dairy Queen trilogy, D.J. Schwenk needs to decide what happens in her life after her senior year. But all she really wants is for things to get back to normal. Her version of an okay future involves returning to high school a
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Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
Jessie is starting her sophomore year of high school, and on her first day of school, she discovers that her two best friends, Bizza and Char, have transformed themselves into punks without ever mentioning this to her. All this transformation is just so t
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Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
The only thing Dominique wants is to be back playing basketball with her team. But after an impassioned plea goes unheard, and she is still benched because of poor grades, Dominique is seething with rage early one school morning. Enter Trina, a girl in the wrong pla
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Donut Days by Lara Zielin
Emma has a lot going on in her life. Her best friend, Nat, isn’t talking to her. A boy, Jake, she’s known her whole life, is suddenly smokin’ hot and still in love with her. Her minister parents may be losing their church. This weekend Emma’s only f
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Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
This book is mostly about a girl whose mother and father are divorced. The girl has two sisters, from which she gets separated. The girl lives in a trailer with her mom, and the trailer is at the end of a lot. There is a shop across the street from the trailer
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Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Set in New York City during Christmastime, this tender and quirky novel shows two strangers who fall in love through a Moleskin notebook. What starts as a dare to find books in an eighteen mile bookstore, snowballs into full out romanc
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ttyl by Lauren Myracle
Lots of people can probably relate to this book. I know I can. If you need a good laugh then Ttyl is the perfect book to read. It's a great book for teenagers because its so relatable plus it offers advice on everything from boys to cliques to family. Ttyl is also unlike any
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Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
In Ellen Hopkins’s new book, Perfect, the lives of four teenagers, Cara, Sean, Kendra and Andre, are all shaped by their choices, as well as, those of others. Through eating disorders, steroid abuse, and the complications of relationships, all four change and grow
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Spoiled by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
In this issue of our lovely newsletter, I will be reviewing the book Spoiled. When I first picked up this book, it was because of its cover. It features several varieties of makeup, which is one of my obsessions at the moment. Then
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is about Sarah Byrnes, who allegedly pulled a pot of boiling spaghetti down on her face and hands when she was around 3 years old, and her best friend Eric. The two of them met in elementary school and became frien
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