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Chatterbox: Blab About Books

realistic fiction
please recommend ...

please recommend

i need books to read

please?

i will give you goldfish

i will give you my own despacito 2

or a shrek 5 trailer i mad 

submitted by athena, age 13, nyc
(September 28, 2018 - 7:57 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

From Twinkle, With Love, by Sandhya Menon.  Always.  It's amazing.

submitted by aFountainPen, age 14, I'll tell you later
(September 29, 2018 - 2:20 am)
submitted by *Yeets to the top*, -FountainPen
(September 29, 2018 - 8:27 am)

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It's historical fiction, set in World War II, about a girl named Ada who has a deformed foot. Her mother keeps her locked in an apartment because she's ashamed of her daughter's foot, but Ada escapes with her brother when kids are being shipped out of England because of the bombs. There's also a sequel, though I haven't read it in forever. 

submitted by Agent WinTOP!, TOPified!
(September 29, 2018 - 10:39 am)

Oooh, I love that book! I myself was born with a club foot, and that story really spoke to me. 

submitted by Vyolette
(October 1, 2018 - 3:34 pm)

A couple of really good ones:

Paper Things and Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson 

submitted by Jwyn, age 13, The Realm Of Creativity
(September 29, 2018 - 4:16 pm)

Class Dismissed by Alan Woodrow, Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass, The Trail by Meika Hashimoto, Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson. 

submitted by Soren Infinity, age 27 eons, BeaconTown
(September 30, 2018 - 8:14 am)

I particularly enjoyed Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper.

submitted by Marigold, The State of Mind
(September 30, 2018 - 12:13 pm)

Wonder by R. J. Palicio

submitted by Secret
(September 30, 2018 - 6:59 pm)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow. I loved it!!! It's about a girl who goes to a band camp after she finds out her parents are divorcing.

submitted by Quill
(October 2, 2018 - 4:22 pm)


The Thing About Jellyfish 

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

The Incorrigible Children Of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood 

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

these are some of my favorite books of all time 

submitted by moonlightelf
(October 5, 2018 - 10:40 am)

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen.

Six Feet Over It by Jennifer Longo (if you're okay with cursing).

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. 

submitted by Viola?, age Secret, Secret
(October 6, 2018 - 4:51 pm)

I 100% agree with those who mentioned The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place and Inside Out and Back Again, I love both those books. Thanhha Lai, the other of the latter, also wrote another book called Listen, Slowly which is excellent.

Some more suggestions:

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. It's such a short, simple book and yet so impossibly good. It's about time travel and friendship and secret notes and lives lived unheard and a lonely girl named Miranda.

Anything by Grace Lin. She's great. Nice, easy reading that's sweet and heartfelt and funny and relatable. I especially love Dumpling Days and Where the Mountain Meets The Moon.

Masterminds by Gordan Korman. I read this a couple years ago and I remember really liking it. It starts off like realistic fiction and then slowly descends into sci-fi/dystopia.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. A classic, a bit more mature, but 100% worth a read. I don't often cry at books but by the end of this one I was bawling like a baby.

Skellig by David Almond. All around beautiful, excellent book. Magical realism kinda deal. I read it a while ago and adored it, and but now looking back I think there are some things that went over my head and I could really do with a re-reading. Putting that on my list.

Anything by Leigh Bardugo. There's some more mature themes, violence, and language, but everything she's written is just really amazing and I vehemently recommend them. I love her so much. 

submitted by Abigail, age Old enough, Inside my head
(October 6, 2018 - 9:35 pm)

Anything by Morgan Matson is amazing!! I'd recommend 'Since You've Been Gone', but they're all good!! Oh, also I know you're 13 so you'll be absolutely fine but if anyone reading this is under 10 they might be a bit too mature, but I suppose it depends on the person. :)

 

submitted by Leila, age (savvy)
(October 9, 2018 - 4:25 pm)

I really Recommend "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead. It is my absolute favorite realistic fiction ever. Check it out!

submitted by Isabel R, age 11, Colorado
(October 11, 2018 - 7:23 pm)

Ronit & Jamil by Pamela L. Laskin (I especially love the poem "Lightning Strikes")

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Half of these are in verse, that's my favorite kind of realistic fiction lol. 

 

Laylanie says tkth. That's so close to TKTS. DO you want to see a Broadway musical, Laylanie? 

submitted by Stardust, Ubiquitous
(October 30, 2018 - 3:38 pm)