Kids Booklists
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Realistic Fiction for Kids
Storytime Favorites
There's an alligator under my bed
by Mercer Mayer
The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage.
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Trashy town
by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha
Little by little, can by can, Mr. Gillie, the trash man, cleans up his town.
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Kitten's first full moon
by Kevin Henkes
When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.
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Llama Llama mad at Mama
by Anna Dewdney
A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
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Goodnight, goodnight, construction site
by Sherri Duskey Rinker
At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.
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Stuck
by Oliver Jeffers
When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
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Pete the cat and his four groovy buttons
by James Dean
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.
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Chu's day
by Neil Gaiman ; illustrated by Adam Rex.
Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze. When Chu sneezes, bad things happen. Will Chu sneeze today?
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Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
by Bob Shea
A young dinosaur takes on many challenges and wins every time. Then Dinosaur faces his toughest challenge of all: bedtime.
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Lost and found
by Andrew Clements
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
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Hot, sour, salty, sweet
by Sherri L. Smith
Disaster strikes when Ana Shen is about to deliver the salutatorian speech at her junior high school graduation, but an even greater crisis looms when her best friend invites a crowd to Ana's house for dinner, and Ana's multicultural grandparents must fin
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The thing about Georgie
by Lisa Graff
Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and joins the journey.
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The naked mole-rat letters
by Mary Amato
When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.
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Kimchi & calamari
by Rose Kent
Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past.
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Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
by Wendy Mass
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
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Home of the Brave
by Katherine Applegate
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
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Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree
by Lauren Tarshis
A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.
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Stanford Wong flunks big-time
by Lisa Yee
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
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