Entering Grade 6
Realistic Fiction
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The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
Sisters Viji and Rukku run away from a dangerous home life to bustling, overcrowded Chennai. Life there is harsh as well, but the girls find a home on an abandoned bridge with two kind homeless boys. Together, they not only survive but have moments of laughter and pride as well--until sickness changes everything. |
It Wasn't Me by Dana Alison Levy
When Theo's photography project is vandalized, he'd just like to forget it and move on. But his favorite teacher decides the way to solve the problem is to make Theo and all the students who were in the gallery at the time of the vandalism come to school (during Spring Break!) and conduct what she calls a "justice circle." What could go wrong? |
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
At first when some of the boys in her seventh grade class crash the playground birthday celebration for a friend, and give her a hug, Mila thinks nothing of it. Soon, there's another hug, and a smirk, comments on the bus . . . it all feels weird. Her friend says they're just flirting. But it doesn't feel like flirting and soon she just wants to hide, even in band, her favorite subject. |