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Realistic fiction
Realistic fiction has made-up characters and events, but everything in these stories **could** happen in our present-day world.
 * **//Amber Brown Goes Fourth// by Paula Danziger:** Amber is ready for fourth grade, except for one thing: who will be her best friend? (There are several really good books in this series.)
 * **//Amelia// books by Marissa Moss:** Read Amelia's journals - lots of fun.
 * **//Frindle// by Andrew Clements:** Nick invents a new word for his pen. His teacher doesn't like this, so she puts anyone who uses the new word in detention. Will his word survive?
 * **//The Gadget War// by Betsy Duffey:** Read about all kinds of gadgets made by two kids.
 * **//Holes// by Louis Sachar:** Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake when accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes.
 * **//Judy Moody// series by Megan McDonald:** Funny stories of things that happen to Judy Moody at home and at school.
 * **//Love, Ruby Lavendar// by Deborah Wiles:** Ruby Lavendar is miserable after her grandfather dies and her grandmother goes on vacation to Hawaii.
 * **//Trapped!// :** When someone is stealing from members of the soccer team, one girl worries that it might be her friend.