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Life and Its Problems

Aldrich, Bess Streeter – A Lantern in Her Hand  L1020 (historical)

Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings   L1070 (mature)

Avi – Nothing But the Truth L1080   pp. 210

Barrett – Lilies of the Field L770 (also historical)

Bauer, Joan – Hope Was Here, Squashed L710,930

Braithwaite – To Sir with Love

Cannon, A.E. – Amazing Gracie L680, 

Carter - The Education of Little Tree   L890 (mulitcultural)

Creech – many including  Walk Two Moons ( which was a 7th grade class book)

Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities  (historical)

Douglass  – The Robe -- (Historical Fiction)

Fitzhugh, Louise – Harriet the Spy L760

Fleishman -- Whirligig 760L

Fox – The One-Eyed Cat   L1000

Gardiner – Stone Fox L550

George, Jean Craighead - Water Sky L730

Gunther - Death Be Not Proud L1069  (This is nonfiction.)

Hemingway, Ernest – The Old Man and the Sea L940  

Hilton – Goodbye Mr. Chips L930

Hinton – That Was Then, This is Now, Tex L780, 710,  (Do not use The Outsiders   L750  Seventh grade class book)

Holt – When Zachary Beaver Came to Town L700  pp.227

Johnson, Scott – One of the Boys, Safe at Second L700

Keyes – Flowers for Algernon  L910

Knowles – A Separate Peace L1110 pp. 196

Krumgold, Joseph – and now Miguel  L780 pp. 245

McCormic – Cut   L660   pp. 151

Myers, Walter D.--- Somewhere in the Darkness, Monster L670

Newton, Robert – A Day No Pigs Would Die L690 pp. 150

Olsen, Gretchen – Joyride  (200 pages)

Paterson – Bridge to Terebithia L810

Potok, Chiam – The Chosen L970

Randale – The Only Alien on the Planet   L650

Ritter – Choosing Up Sides L670

Sebestyen, Ouida – Words By Heart   L750      -- This is also historical -- 1910 Texas  

Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn L810 (historical)

Steinbeck, John – The Red Pony, The Pearl L810,1010  

Voight, Cynthia – Homecoming 630L, Dicey’s Song and others  L710

Wolff – Make Lemonade   L890  pp.200

Others not in Realistic Fiction genre that deal with life problems: 

Bach, Richard - Jonathan Livingston Seagull   (allegory)

Bunyan, John –  Pilgrim’s Progress L1140  (allegory)

Frankle, Viktor – Man’s Search for Meaning  (nonfiction)

Lindberg, Anne – Gift from the Sea

Saint Exupery – The Little Prince L710  (allegory/fantasy)

Ten Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place L900  -- nonfiction

Wiesel, Elie – Night   L590  (nonfiction)