realistic fiction

Kristy's family moves to a new neighborhood where the kids make fun of Louie, Kristy's pet collie, who's going blind. The Baby-sitters are not going to let them get away with it.

Mindy takes a trip to South Korea to visit her grandparents.

Harry Bergen-Murphy does not feel ready when he starts first grade, but by day 100 he has become an expert on several important things, including being a first-grader.

Told from different viewpoints, five eighth-graders who have challenges at home and at school also experience a sad loss as a group and welcome a new addition to their extended family.

Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now has nothing more than a sheet for a body, has become one of her only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular crowd she strains to keep Wendell's identity from her new friends, and he begins to feel even more invisible than he already is. Eliza Duncan feels invisible too. An avid ghost photographer, she is labeled a freak by the other kids in school and begins to feel like a ghost herself. Marjorie must decide how much she values Wendell's friendship over her new popularity, and come to terms with her role in the bullying Eliza endures.

Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little differently than one else on her Ojibwe reservation. It always seems like her mom, her kokum (grandma), and her teacher have a lot to learn--about how good Jo Jo is at cleaning up, what makes a good rhyme, and what it means to be friendly. Jo Jo is worried that she needs to figure out how to make more friends. Because Fern, her best friend at school, may not want to be friends any more.

A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.

Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.

Follow the humorous struggles of a mom raising her two teenage sons.

Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out. A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone -- anyone! -- to go with on the big night. But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a "group of friends." But the night is long, and anything can happen along the way. Who will arrive at the dance triumphantly, and who will end up being the third wheel?.