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Post one Historical Fiction Book and one Realistic Fiction Book DO NOT Indicate which you think it is. ONLY put TITLE , 1-2 sentence summary and picture of book if you wish.

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Post one Historical Fiction Book and one Realistic Fiction Book DO NOT Indicate which you think it is. ONLY put TITLE , 1-2 sentence summary and picture of book if you wish.

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EX: How I survived Hurricane Katrina by Lauren Tarshis
The I Survived series focuses on events that happened surrounding Hurricane Katrina 2005.

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Merci Suarez is a 6th grader at a private school in South Florida. She deals with changes in her family's life and a bully who poses as a friend.

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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Bud has no mother and never met his father. Mom left him several clues so he set out to find his Dad. He hits the road on an adventure to discover his father and hopefully to find him.

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Ivan is a gorilla who lives in a shopping mall circus and spends his days drawing and observing the humans around him. When a baby elephant arrives, Ivan begins to see his life differently and works to make a better future for his friends.

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A heart-warming and inspiring story about a boy named August who has a rare facial difference. All of his short life, he has endured countless surgeries. He has been homeschooled through the 5th grade and now it is time for him to go to school with other children. Because he looks different, Auggie endures horrific bullying and estrangement from most of his classmates. His shining personality comes through, though, and he makes a few really good friends. August teaches us how to be resilient and that being kind is what life is all about.

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Laura is a young girl in foster care who finds a stray puppy. She ends up trying to train him to be a therapy dog, so she can reunite with her parents because they struggle with addiction.

-Sara Durbin

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Set during the Great Depression, Esperanza must leave her privileged life in Mexico and move to California after a family tragedy. As she faces poverty and hardship, she learns resilience, compassion, and the value of hard work.

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New Kid by Jerry Craft is a graphic novel about Jordan Banks, a seventh grader who is one of the few students of color at a prestigious private school. As he adjusts to a new environment, Jordan navigates friendships, identity, and the challenges of fitting into two very different worlds while staying true to himself.

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This is a Newberry-honor book about family, friendship, and the Challenger tragedy.

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book we Dream of Space - Erin Entrada Kelly

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This is a Newberry-award winner about 4 kids whose lives intertwine in surprising and moving ways on one fateful day.

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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains-Emilee Worley

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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains-Emilee Worley

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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall tells the story of the Nez Perce War through the eyes of Sound of Running Feet, the daughter of Chief Joseph. As her people are forced from their homeland, she witnesses their struggle for freedom, bravery, and survival while fleeing the U.S. Army.

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The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny, butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time, she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play, and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo.

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historical fiction for children 9-12; books for kids age 9 12; books for boys age 9 12; kids books ages 9-12; chapter books for kids age 9-12; books for girls age 9 12; books for 8 year old girls; books for 8 year old boys; books for 10 year old girls; 5th grade books; realistic fiction books for kids 9-12; 4th grade books; 5th grade reading books; 4th grade reading books; 3rd grade reading books; teen books; african american children's books; chapter books for kids age 8-10; young adult

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The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. H...

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Traitors Among Us by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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Traitors Among Us by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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After surviving the horrors of World War II in Ukraine, sisters Krystia and Maria are reunited in a displaced persons camp, only to be falsely accused of collaborating with the Nazis.

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Traitors Among Us by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

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Alta who dreams of being as fast as her hero, Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph, who is from her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee.

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Three sisters go to visit their mom who left them seven years ago. While they are with her, she sends them to a Black Panther Camp and encourages them to go to a rally.

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Read 4,506 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a...

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A widowed farmer places an ad for a wife and Sarah answers it. She comes to be with him and his children on the prairie in the late 19th century.

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This book is filled with so many rich details of the Chinese culture, you can almost smell the dim sum, and see Chinese art come to life. Even though there are two very different timelines, Glaser does an incredible job of telling both stories vividly. This does have some magical realism with a tiger who guides Han Lu on his trek to help his dying sister. Both characters have an intense bond with the animal world and both characters learn how to rely on their families and communities.

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Seven diverse fifth-graders whose lives are changed by their new, inspiring teacher, Mr. Terupt, who helps them find strength in themselves and each other, even as they navigate personal challenges and a tragic event that tests their newfound bonds.

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A young girl details her life as she experiences the Partition of British India and her family's journey to make their way to Muslim-majority Pakistan.

-Sara Durbin

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In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II.

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Three children - who are not friends - are forced to work together when Hurricane Katrina hits.

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Two recently orphaned siblings find an exciting new life in their cousin's barnstorming flying circus, only to face grave danger when they become targets of the rising Ku Klux Klan.

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Mason is a great writer and typer, skills he uses to help his father create change. When he competes in the county typing tournament, Mason takes a stand, using his skills to triumph over prejudice and break racial barriers. It is set in Greenville, NC.

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Orphan Christopher Rowe becomes an apprentice to an apothecary in 17th Century London. Using his newfound knowledge, Christopher attempts to solve mysterious murders and uncover secrets.

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Alex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a retirement home where he’s bossed around by an annoying and self-important do-gooder named Maya-Jade.

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The boy in the striped pajamas by John Boyne

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Bruno, a naive 9-year-old German boy whose father is a Nazi commandant, relocates near the Auschwitz concentration camp. Bruno befriends Shmuel, an imprisoned Jewish boy.

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With only five days left before school starts, brother and sister Evan and Jessie turn their lemonade stands into an all-out competition to see who can earn the most money.

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Two kids. One devastating day. Nothing will ever be the same.

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Macy falls in love with the first book in a series only to return to the library the next day to discover that it has closed due to budget cuts. She and her community learn to advocate for themselves.

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Lydia goes to live with her uncle during a tough time for her family. She turns the experience into a beautiful opportunity to "plant" roots in a new place.

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A deaf 12-year-old girl named Iris relates deeply to the isolation of "Blue 55," a whale that sings at a frequency other whales cannot hear. She embarks on a cross-country journey to Alaska with her grandmother to broadcast a custom-made song to the animal

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Stanley Yelnats gets wrongfully accused and sent to a boys detention center out in the desert. His family blames a family "curse" caused by his great-great-grandfather.

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Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard. The guard sat next to the driver with his seat turned around facing Stanley. A rifle lay across his lap.

Stanley was sitting about ten rows back, handcuffed to his armrest. His backpack lay on the seat next to him. It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationary his mother had given him. He'd promised to write to her at least once a week.

He looked out the window, although there wasn't much to see-mostly fields of hay and cotton. He was on a long bus ride to nowhere. The bus wasn't air-conditioned, and the hot heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs.

Stanley and his parents had tried to pretend that he was just going away to camp for a while, just like rich kids do. When Stanley was younger he used to play with stuffed animals, and pretend the animals were at camp. Camp Fun and Games he called it. Sometimes he'd have them play soccer with a marble. Other times they'd run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Now Stanley tried to pretend he was going to Camp Fun and Games. Maybe he' d make some friends, he thought. At least he'd get to swim in the lake.

He didn' t have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size. Even his teachers sometimes made cruel comments without realizing it. On his last day of school, his math teacher, Mrs. Bell, taught ratios. As an example, she chose the heaviest kid in the class and the lightest kid in the class, and had them weigh themselves. Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused both of them.
Stanley was arrested later that day.
He looked at the guard who sat slumped in his seat and wondered of he had fallen asleep. The guard was wearing sunglasses, so Stanley couldn't see his eyes.

Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. He'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!
He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!

Supposedly, he had a great-great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all his descendants. Stanley and his parents didn't believe in curses, of course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able to blame someone.

Things went wrong a lot. They always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He looked out the window at the vast emptiness. He watched the rise and fall of a telephone wire. In his mind he could hear his father's gruff voice softly singing to him.

"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer."
"While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, if only."

It was a song his father used to sing to him. The melody was sweet and sad, but Stanley's favorite part was when his father would howl the word "moon".

The bus hit a small bump and the guard sat up, instantly alert.

Stanley's father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck.

Stanley's father was smart and had a lot of perseverance. Once he started a project he would work on it for years, often going days without sleep. He just never had any luck.

Every time an experiment failed, Stanley could hear him cursing his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

Stanley's father was also named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley's father's full name was Stanley Yelnats III. Our Stanley is Stanley Yelnats IV.

Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that "Stanley Yelnats" was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their sons Stanley. Stanley was an only child, as was every other Stanley Yelnats before him.

All of them had something else in common. Despite their awful luck, they always remained hopeful. As Stanley's father liked to say, " I learned from failure."

But perhaps that was part of the curse as well. If Stanley and his father weren't always hopeful, then it wouldn't hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed.

"Not every Stanley Yelnats has been a failure," Stanley's mother often pointed out, whenever Stanley or his father became so discouraged that they actually started to believe in the curse. The first Stanley Yelnats, Stanley' s great-grandfather, had made a fortune in the stock market. "He couldn't have been too unlucky."

At such times she neglected to mention the bad luck that befell the first Stanley Yelnats. He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. His stagecoach was robbed by the outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow.

If it weren't for that, Stanley's family would now be living in a mansion on a beach in California. Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor.

"If only, if only....

The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's father was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers. "The first person who finds a use for old sneakers, " he said, "will be a very rich man."

It was this lastest project that led to Stanley's arrest.
The bus ride became increasingly bumpy because the road was no longer paved.

Actually, Stanley had been impressed when he first found out that is great-grandfather was robbed by Kissin' Kate Barlow. True, he would have preferred living on the beach in California, but it was still kind of cool to have someone in your family robbed by a famous outlaw.

Kate Barlow didn't actually kiss Stanley's great-grandfather. That would have been really cool, but she only kissed the men she killed. Instead, she robbed him and left him stranded in the middle of the desert.

"He was lucky to have survived," Stanley's mother was quick to point out.

The bus was slowing down. The guard grunted as he stretched out his arms.

"Welcome Camp Green Lake," said the driver.

Stanley looked out the dirty window. He couldn't see a lake.

And hardly anything was green.

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Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard. The guard sat next to the driver with his seat turned around facing Stanley. A rifle lay across his lap. Stanley was sitting about ten rows back, handcuffed to his armrest.

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After being wrongfully arrested while trying to help his intoxicated ex-girlfriend, Justyce McAllister, a top-tier Black high school senior in Atlanta, begins writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to understand and navigate systemic racism.

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A 12-year-old boy starts a lawn-mowing business using his grandma's lawn mower. The boy now has to learn about business and finance due to his new venture into the business world and wealth.

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In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother struggling to make ends meet, Petra has to drop out of school to shell pecans at a factory. Hoping it's only temporary, she tries not to despair over the grueling work conditions. But after the unhealthy environment leads to tragedy and workers' already low wages are cut, Petra knows things need to change. She and her coworkers go on strike for higher wages and safer conditions, risking everything they have for the hope of a better future.

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"Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration."

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"Open this book, read it slowly to savor the delicious language. This is a book that asks the reader to be careful, to pay attention, to sigh at the end."
-Kathi Appelt, bestselling author of Newbery Honor Book The Underneath
"Based in Lai's personal experience, this first novel captures a child-refugee's struggle with rare honesty. Written in accessible, short free-verse poems, Hà's immediate narrative describes her mistakes-both humorous and heartbreaking; and readers will be moved by Hà's sorrow as they recognize the anguish of being the outcast."
-Booklist (starred review)
"The taut portrayal of Hà's emotional life is especially poignant as she cycles from feeling smart in Vietnam to struggling in the States, and finally regains academic and social confidence. An incisive portrait of human resilience."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An enlightening, poignant and unexpectedly funny novel in verse. In her not-to-be-missed debut, Lai evokes a distinct time and place and presents a complex, realistic heroine whom readers will recognize, even if they haven't found themselves in a strange new country."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a ten-year-old girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya."
-Mitali Perkins, author of Bamboo People
"Lai's spare language captures the sensory disorientation of changing cultures as well as a refugee's complex emotions and kaleidoscopic loyalties."

"Ha's voice is full of humor and hope."
-School Library Journal (starred review)
"In this free-verse narrative, Lai is sparing in her details, painting big pictures with few words and evoking abundant visuals."
-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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"Open this book, read it slowly to savor the delicious language. This is a book that asks the reader to be careful, to pay attention, to sigh at the end." -Kathi Appelt, bestselling author of Newbery Honor Book The Underneath "Based in Lai's personal experience, this first novel captures a child-refugee's struggle with rare honesty.

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It seems like Verity (Very) can do it all and has it all. She is the student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. The only thing is that math doesn't work with Very's brain, and it starts to impact almost every part of her life, until an observant teacher can help her figure it out.

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"In late summer, a young boy’s parents share the happy news that he’s going to be a big brother. As Mama’s belly grows and Papa builds a crib, the boy wonders what it will be like to share his favorite toys with his new sibling. Then one cold winter day, Mama and Papa return from the hospital with some devastating news–the baby is not coming anymore. This sudden loss leaves the boy and his parents feeling empty inside."

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A tender story with exquisite illustrations, Ours will resonate with families who have endured unexpected pregnancy loss and are beginning to heal together.

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A graphic novel about Bree, a girl who moves to Florida and is forced to take a swim class, despite being afraid of the water, and ends up helping to turn around her school's failing swim team with the help of a neighbor.

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Anne is an orphan adopted by an older brother and sister. She is imaginative and loves living on the farm.

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Fifth-grader Nick invents a new word "frindel" for pen. He goes head to head with his teacher, Mrs. Granger, who says he can't just invent new words and pushes back. Things quickly escalate beyond Nick's control!

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Everett loses someone special. In this book he journeys through the five stages of grief.