realistic fiction

While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home.

In desperate need of clear skies as she starts a new school, Madalyn has days filled with clouds that lead to serious storms until she learns the power of community and family after disaster strikes.

"Karen has new roller skates. She is a very good skater. She can even do tricks. But oh, no! Karen falls down and breaks her wrist! She has to go to the hospital and get a cast. Karen wants somebody famous to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy-but Karen won't give up till she gets the job done!"--Provided by publisher.

A teenaged social media star living in New York and a sixteen-year-old girl living in the English village of Little Marsh swap places in an attempt to have the perfect Christmases.

When Finley Brown returns to her hometown of Christmas, Oklahoma, from boarding school, she finds things have changed everywhere and looks to find her own place at home.

To stave off the anxiety plaguing her, Cora counts the minutes that fill her day and searches for a lost treasure near her home in California, but the sudden arrival of her long-lost uncle threatens to upend her carefully-constructed existence.

The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.

Sixth-graders Ashley and her best friend Maya were banished from the live "News at Nine" broadcast at John Dos Passos Elementary in Baltimore after an embarrassing incident in the previous year; at loose ends the pair, together with their classmate Brielle, decide to become investigative reporters with their own online broadcast: "The Underground News"--and soon they stumble upon a major story about an educational software company that is illegally tracking and selling student data.

Visiting her lovable, younger cousin in Chicago over the summer, twelve-year-old Leah tries to help him recover from the trauma of a school shooting.

"When twelve-year-old Violet's dad walks out, she faces the aftermath the only way she knows how: with pie and math. But family and friendship turn out to have are more variables than she thought"--Provided by publisher.