Realistic Fiction



Interest Level By Grade
  • Abel’s Island – William Steig (4-7)
  • From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (5-8)
  • Harriet The Spy – Louise Fitzhugh (5-8)
  • Holes – Louis Sachar (6-9)
  • Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson (6-9)
  • Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George (5-8)
  • Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli (5-8)
  • Missing May – Cynthia Rylant (6-8)
  • Pigman – Paul Zindel (7-9)
  • Ramona Quimby, Age 8 – Beverly Cleary (3-5)
  • Ring of Endless Light – Madeleine L’Engle (6-9)
  • Sarah Plain and Tall – Patricia MacLachlan (4-6)
  • Sign of the Beaver – Elizabeth George Speare (5-8)
  • Sounder – William Armstrong (5)
  • Summer of the Swans – Betsy Byars (6)
  • The Egypt Game – E.L. Konigsburg (6-8)
  • The Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson (5-8)
  • The Noonday Friends – Mary Stolz (7-9)
  • The View From Saturday – Konigsburg, E.L. (5-8)
  • The War With Grandpa – Robert Kimmel Smith (5-9)
  • Wringer – Jerry Spinelli (5-8)
  • Patchwork Quilt – Valerie Flournoy (3-4)