Summary: Eager to make friends when her family moves to California in the middle of her tenth-grade year, Tallulah lies about being an expert surfer which, when she is found out, ruins her reputation and her only option is to make the lie true. Walker
Posts Tagged ‘Realistic fiction’
Poser, by Sue Wyshynski
July 28, 2010Nothing, by Janne Teller
July 27, 2010
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life. Atheneum
Jump, by Elisa Carbone
July 27, 2010
Summary: A totally wild, crazy jump from a restrictive life with her family into a life of total adventure–rock-climbing out west with a guy she barely knows. At first, everything’s amazing. Not only are they climbing in awesomely beautiful national parks like Yosemite but they seem awesomely made for one another. P.K. is in heaven. And then the cops show up with an arrest warrant. And P.K. has to decide who to believe: this amazing guy whom she trusts with her life–or the cops, who want her to believe that he may take her life. Viking.
The Cardturner, by Louis Sachar
July 26, 2010
Summary: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge. Delacourte
What Momma Left Me, by Renee Watson
May 4, 2010
Summary: After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family. 240 pgs. Bloomsbury
The Lonely Hearts Club, by Elizabeth Eulberg
April 15, 2010
Summary: Fed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane–named after the Beatles song–forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising. 290 pgs. Point
Sorta Like a rock Star, by Matthew Quick
April 7, 2010
Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression. 355 pgs. Little,Brown
Somebody Everybody Listens To, by Suzanne Supplee
April 7, 2010
Summary: Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams. 304 pgs. Penguin
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
March 8, 2009
Summary: Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
297 pages, Orchard Books
Absolutely, Maybe by Lisa Yee
February 27, 2009
Summary: When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline “Maybe” Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
274 pages, Arthur A. Levine
