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The Fourth Graders recommend....
Realistic Fiction
(Realistic fiction deals with events that could really happen in life.
The events in realistic fiction take place in modern times.)
(Ms. Roby thinks Fifth Graders would like these too.)

Fourth graders came up with some of these titles, and Ms. Roby added some others she thought they would also enjoy.

Barry- Science Fair
Baskin- What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows
Benton- Dear Dumb Diary books
Birdsall- The Penderwicks books
Bloor- Tangerine
Blume- Several titles
Byars-Summer of the Swans and other titles
Cabot- Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
Carter- Cross my heart and hope to spy
Child- Clarice Bean chapter books
Christopher-Several sports titles
Choldenko- Al Capone Does My Shirts and others
Cleary-Several titles
Clement- Frindle and other titles
Conley- Crazy Lady and While No One Was Watching
Creech- Walk Two Moons and other titles
Curtis-Bud Not Buddy and other titles
DiCamillo- Because of Winn-Dixie and other titles
Fitzhugh- Harriet the Spy
Frederick- Mother-Daughter Book Club
Gutman- The Kid Who Became President and other titles
Gantos- Joey Pigza stories
Graft- The Thing About Georgia
Hesse- Witness and other titles
Henkes- Bird Lake Moon
Higson- Young Bond books
Holm- Our Own May Amelia
Holt-When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Horowitz-Alex Rider series
Kinney- Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
Konigsburg-The View from Saturday and other titles
Korman- No More Dead Dogs and Son of the Mob
Koss- The Girls
Lin- Year of the Dog
MacLachlan-Sarah Plain and Tall and other titles
McKay- Indigo's Star
Morgan- The Boy Who Spoke Dog
Peck- A Long Way from Chicago and other titles
Paterson-Bridge to Terabithia
Patron- The Higher Power of Lucky
Paulsen- Hatchet and other titles
Peterson- Liars
Robinson- The Best School Year Ever and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Rockwell- How to Eat Fried Worms
Ryan-Riding Freedom and others of this author
Sachar-Holes and other titles
Sachar- There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Schmidt- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy
Singh-Younguncle Comes to Town
Soto- Baseball in April and other titles
Stead- When You Reach Me
Stone-Deep Down Popular
Spinelli- Maniac Magee and other titles
Tarshis-Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell out of a Tree
Van Draanen- Flipped
Wallace- Upchuck and the Rotten Willy
White- Belle Prater's Boy
Wiles- Love, Ruby Lavender
Winkler- Hank Zipzer books
Wyss- The Swiss Family Robinson
Yee- Millicent Min, Girl Genius and Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time

jroby 6/2011