Realistic Fiction

Authors to look for

Chris Cruthcher, S. E. Hinton, Harry Mazer, Norma Fox Mazer, Walter Dean Myers

Titles to try

Alvarez, Julia    How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Speak
Anonymous    Go Ask Alice
Bloor, Edward    Tangerine
Bunting, Eve    Sharing Susan
Buss, Fran Leeper    Journey of the Sparrows
Childress, Alice    A Hero Ain’t Nothing but a Sandwich
Cole, Sheila    What Kind Of Love?
Cormier, Robert    We All Fall Down
Crew, Linda    Children of the River
Crutcher, Chris    Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Ironman
Draper, Sharon M.    Tears of a Tiger
Fleischman, Paul        Whirligig
Frank, E.R.    America
Garden, Nancy    Annie On My Mind
Hinton, S.E.    The Outsiders, Rumblefish
Johnson, Angela        The First Part Last
Keizer, Garret    God of Beer
Kerr, M. E.     Deliver Us From Evie, Night Kites
Koertge, Ronald    Stoner & Spaz
Mazer, Harry    Snowbound
Marsden, John    Letters From the Inside
Mazer, Norma Fox    Out of Control, Taking Terri Muller, When She Was Good
McDaniel, Lurlene    Baby Alicia is Dying, How Do I Love Thee?, I
Mori, Kyoko    Shizuko’s Daughter
Myers, Walter Dean    145th Street, Monster, Scorpions
Oates, Joyce Carol     Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Peck, Richard    Are You in the House Alone, Remembering the Good Times
Philbrick, Rodman    Freak the Mighty
Pullman, Philip        The White Mercedes
Rennison, Louise    Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Rodowsky, Colby    Lucy Peale
Sinclair, April     Coffee Will Make You Black
Staples, Susan Fisher    Shabanu
Temple, Francis    Taste of Salt: A Tale of Modern Haiti
Thesman, Jean    Calling the Swan
Thomas, Rob    Rats Saw God
Voigt, Cynthia    Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Whelan, Gloria    Homeless Bird
Willey, Margaret    Saving Lenny
Williams-Garcia, Rita      Like Sisters on the Homefront
Wolff, Viginia Euwer    True Believer
Wittlinger, Ellen        Hard Love