Grade 6 - Realistic Fiction

ISBN: 0374336644
Title: Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos - To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts acting wired
Author: Gantos, Jack.

ISBN: 9780375969027
Title: Wonder by R.J. Palacio - Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan
Author: Palacio, R. J.

ISBN: 1416901949
Title: The higher power of Lucky by Susan Patron - Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away
Author: Patron, Susan, 1948-

ISBN: 0060274727
Title: Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman - A number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed
Author: Fleischman, Paul.

ISBN: 9780375936883
Title: Turtle in paradise by Jennifer L. Holm - In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida
Author: Holm, Jennifer L.

ISBN: 9780374332662
Title: Holes by Louis Sachar - Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself
Author: Sachar, Louis, 1954-

ISBN: 0316807222
Title: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli - After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries
Author: Spinelli, Jerry.

ISBN: 9780544876392
Title: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser - Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind
Author: Glaser, Karina Yan, author.

Title: The view from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg - Four students develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition
Author: Konigsburg, E. L.

ISBN: 9780399557569
Title: The Losers Club by Andrew Clements - Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club and discovers that real life can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books
Author: Clements, Andrew, 1949- author.