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Realistic Fiction

 * **//Boys Against the Girls// series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor:** Three girls and four boys are at "war" - a war of pranks and tricks.
 * **//Camp Confidential//:** A group of girls who met at a summer camp help each other with problems when they get back home.
 * **//Crash// by Jerry Spinelli:** A popular football player has been picking on another boy who lives down the street until they become friends.
 * **//Frindle// by Andrew Clements:** In Nick's fifth grade year, he learns about how words get into the dictionary. He decides to see if he can add a new one: Frindle.
 * **//Fudge// series by Judy Blume:** Peter suffers from being the older brother of Fudge.
 * **//Harry Houdini and the Magic Club//:** A boy finds a Harry Houdini book and wants to become just like him.
 * **//Holes// by Louis Sachar:** Stanley has to go to Camp Green Lake when accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes - will he survive digging holes, rattlesnakes, and the deadly yellow-spotted lizards?
 * **//Hurt Go Happy//:** A girl is 75% deaf and learns sign language from an old man with a chimp who also knows sign language.
 * **//It's Justin Time, Amber Brown// by Paula Danziger:** Amber is looking forward to her birthday, but she is worried that her best friend Justin is going to be late.
 * **//Junie B. Jones// series by Barbara Park:** Junie B. has her own funny way of talking and getting into trouble, but she always learns a lesson from mistakes.
 * **//Loser// by Jerry Spinelli:** A kid whose last name is Zinkoff is considered to be a real oddball by his classmates.
 * **//The Losers Fight Back// by Barbara Joosse:** The Bruisers soccer team is now called the Losers because they've been losing a lot. Can they change their name back?
 * **//The Report Card// by Andrew Clements:** Nora is really smart who always gets good grades -- until she decides to prove that grades weren't that important and ends up making all Ds and one C.
 * **//Skinnybones// by Barbara Park:** Alex is kind of small and skinny, but he doesn't let that stop him from playing baseball.
 * **//So B. It//:** A girl is trying to deal with a mother is Special Ed.