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Realistic Fiction

 * **//Alice// series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor:** Alice goes through many of the trials and tribulations of growing up.
 * **//Anastasia Krupnik// series by Lois Lowry:** Anastasia likes to experience different things and sometimes gets herself into trouble because of the choices she makes.
 * **//Esio Trot// by Roald Dahl:** A man is interested in a woman who lives in an apartment below him. He wishes that she would pay as much attention to him as she pays to her turtle.
 * **//Marvin Redpost// by Louis Sachar:** Marvin gets himself into all kinds of difficult and funny situations.
 * **//Olive's Ocean// by Kevin Henkes:** A girl finds Olive's journal after Olive is killed in a car accident.
 * **//The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs// by Betty Birney:** A boy's father challenges him to find seven "wonders" right in their own small town. View a video book talk.