Realistic Fiction

1. Realistic Fiction

2. Realistic Fiction • Stories that accurately reflect life as it could be lived today. Everything in the story could happen to real people living in our natural physical world.

3. Wounded – Eric Walters Marcus and his sister are counting down the days until their father comes home from Afghanistan. When the big day arrives, the family is overcome by happiness and relief that he is safe, but as the days pass Marcus begins to feel that there is something different about his father. Barely sleeping, obsessed with news from Afghanistan, and overly aggressive, his dad refuses to seek counselling. Marcus knows post-traumatic stress disorder affects many soldiers, and he needs to get his dad some help before it is too late.

4. Alexandria of Africa – Eric Walters • Alex is a rich girl who gets caught shoplifting. She has a choice, go to jail or go to Kenya, Africa to work for an international charity.

5. Lush and Bounce – Natasha Fiend • Lush Sam is 13 and her father is an alcoholic. She knows things have to stop, but doesn’t know how to make it stop. She decides to fine advice for her problems. • Bounce • Evyn’s father is remarrying and moving her and her brother into their step mom’s house. There is a lot of adjustment with 6 new siblings and a new mom

6. Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen • Juli Baker and Bryce Loski meet as young children. They grow up together, Juli sees Bryce as more than a friend but Bryce doesn’t feel the same way until one day…everything flips!

7. Thunder over Kandahar – Sharon E. McKay • Two best friends flee from their village in Afghanistan after war breaks out . They are reunited years later in England and find they want to return to their childhood home.

8. Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli • Stargirls’ real name is Susan but she is not defined by her name so she changed it. Follow Stargirl and how she rises up the social latter at Mica High.

9. Under the Persimmon Tree – Suzanne Fisher Staples • A young Afghan girl who finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban. Her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. Najmah travels to P Pakistan and finds herself at Persimmon Tree School.

10. Dirty Little Secrets – C.J. Omololu • Everyone has secrets, but Lucy’s is big. She has been hiding her mother’s out-of-control hoarding. When her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy hesitates to call 911 – she begins her two-day plan to set her life right.