 | Realistic Fiction for Grades 6-8 |
| Recommended reading from the Junior High (Y) Collection. Many are available in both hardcover and paperback. | |
| Abdel-Fattah | Ten Things I Hate about Me |
| Alvarez | Finding Miracles |
| Anderson | Speak |
| Avi | Never Mind!: A Twin Novel |
| Baczewski | Just for Kicks |
| Baskin | What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows : A Novel |
| Bennett | A Heart Divided |
| Blacker | Boy2Girl |
| Bloor | Tangerine |
| Blume | Then Again, Maybe I Won't : A Novel |
| Brashares | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
| Bunting | Blackwater |
| Cabot | Teen Idol |
| Cormier | The Chocolate War |
| Creech | Absolutely Normal Chaos |
| Crutcher | Ironman : A Novel |
| Cullen | The Three Lives of Harris Harper |
| Deuker | High Heat |
| Dowell | Chicken Boy |
| Draanen | Flipped (By Van Draanen) |
| Dygard | Backfield Package |
| Ellis | I Am a Taxi : The Cocalero Novels |
| Esckilsen | Offsides: A Novel |
| Frank | Just Ask Iris |
| Friend | Perfect |
| Gantos | Joey Pigza Loses Control |
| Gauthier | Saving the Planet & Stuff |
| Gavalda | 95 Pounds of Hope |
| Grover | On Pointe |
| Han | Shug |
| Hautman | Godless |
| Henkes | Olive's Ocean |
| Hinton | The Outsiders |
| Hobbs | Defiance |
| Hoffius | Winners and Losers |
| Howe | Totally Joe |
| Huser | Stitches |
| Johnson | 13 Little Blue Envelopes |
| Johnson | The First Part Last |
| Kehret | Cages |
| Konigsburg | The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place |
| Leavitt | Heck, Superhero |
| Lockhart | The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks : A Novel |
| Lord | Rules |
| Lubar | Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Paperback only) |
| Lynch | Gold Dust |
| McCormick | My Brother's Keeper |
| McKay | Saffy's Angel |
| Moriarty | The Year of Secret Assignments |
| Murdock | Dairy Queen : A Novel |
| Myers | Monster |
| Myracle | Peace, Love, & Baby Ducks |
| Naidoo | The Other Side of Truth |
| Nelson | Ruby Electric: A Novel |
| Nielsen-Fernlund | Word Nerd |
| Nye | Going Going |
| Park | Mick Harte Was Here |
| Perkins | Monsoon Summer |
| Philbrick | Freak the Mighty |
| Ryan | Becoming Naomi León |
| Sheth | Blue Jasmine |
| Simmons | Pool Boy |
| Smith | Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo |
| Smith | Zach's Lie |
| Sonnenblick | Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie |
| Soto | Mercy on These Teenage Chimps |
| Spinelli | Stargirl |
| Staples | Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind |
| Strasser | Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date |
| Vande Velde | Alison, Who Went Away |
| Volponi | Black and White |
| Wallace | Coyote Autumn |
| Wardlaw | 101 Ways to Bug Your Yeacher |
| Whelan | Homeless Bird |
| White | Belle Prater's Boy |
| Winerip | Adam Canfield of the Slash |
| Wolff | Make Lemonade |
| Woodson | After Tupac & D Foster |
| Zindel | The Pigman |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 3/10 |