Realism Reading Challenge
Animal Stories
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Watership Down
Call of the Wild White Fang Lassie Come Home Black Beauty Tarka the Otter My Friend Flicka Storm Boy Julie of the wolves - Ms Carmyn has a copy War Horse - F MOR Seal Morning - Ms Carmyn has a copy Because of Wynn-dixie - F CAM Thyla - F GOR (enviromentalism) Marley and Me - F GRO |
Coming of Age
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The Yearbook Committee - F AYO
shimmer - the Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong - F MUR Feeling sorry for Celia - F MOR On the Jellico Road - F MAR D J Max - F FOR Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants - F BRA Girls don't fly - F CHA Someone else's Life - F DAL Chloe by Design (fashion design) - F GUR Looking for Alibrandi (F MAR) Does my Head look big in this - F ABD Number 8 - F FIE |
Family Stories
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The Parent Trap (trans. from original German version from 1930s) - Ms Carmyn has a copy Swallows and Amazons - F RAN Children of the New Forest - F MAR Little princess - F BUR Secret garden - F BUR Little Women series - F ALC Railway children - F NES Anne of Green Gables Series - F MON Homecoming (family problems) - F VOI Ballet Shoes - F STR A Little Bush Maid - F BRU Seven Little Australians - F TUR The Illustrated Mum - F WIL |
Contemporary Issues
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Taronga (Environment, animal rights) - F KEL
Piggy in the Middle (genetic engineering) - F JIN Animals of Farthing Wood (Environmental destruction) - Hatchet (survival in the wild) - F PAU Into that forest (survival in the wild) - F NOW I can jump puddles (disability - physical) - F MAR Wonder, Auggie and Me (disability - deformity) - F PAL Mockingbird - (disability - autism spectrum) - F ERK Flyaway (terminal illness) - F CHR Paula (terminal illness from a mother's perspective) - F ALL Wintergirls (anorexia) - F AND If I stay (dying) - F FOR Boys don't cry (teen pregnancy from a male perspective) - F BLA Shadow Girl (Homelessness) - F LAR Everything left unsaid (terminal illness) - F DAV The Fault in our stars (terminal illness) - F GER Girl Underground (refugees) - F GLE No safe Place (refugees, violence) - F ELL This is how I find her (young careres, mental illness) - F POL Girl saves boy (terminal illness) - F BOW Beautiful Music for Ugly People (transgender) - F Impossible Knife of Memory (PTSD) - F AND the Heaven Shop (AIDS in Africa) - F ELL Through my eyes series (life in war zones, drug wars, natural disasters) - F CHI, F HAW, F HEF, F HIL, F MAS, F POW City of Beasts Series (environment, endangered species) - F ALL Falling - F PRO (racism, neo-nazism, refugees) Truth about Peacock Blue - F HAW (religious right in Pakistan) This is how I find her - F POL (teen carers, mental illness from daughter's perespective) Someone else's life - F DAL (adoption) This Star won't go out (real diary of the girl who inspired Fault in our Stars) - F GRE A Young Dancer's Apprenticeship (real US teen joins Moscow city Ballet) - 792.8092 DOW |
Historical Novels
There is another list of historical novels here. It was written for elective history students, so you can easily see which novel fits into which era of history.
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Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman by Jackie French - Ms Carmyn has copy
Any My Story or My Royal Diary Book (except Who am I which you do in English) Waltz for Matilda series (Jackie French - each book has different characters) - F FRE Little House on the Prairie series - Ms Carmyn has the series, also try local libraries and grandparents Tom’s Midnight Garden Girl with a Pearl Earing - F CHE Playing Beatie Bow - F PAR Uncle Tom’s Cabin Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank - F FRA Book Thief - F ZUS (WWII) Harp in the South F PAR Pirates - F REE Fool's Girl - F REE (Shakespearean England) |
Historical Adventure Novels
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Bloody Jack Series - Ms Carmyn has them
Act of Faith - F GAR Changeling - F GRE Spy for the Queen of Scots - F BRE |
Historical Mystery stories
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Sherloock, Lupin and Me series - F ADL
Janna Mysteries (medieval) - F PUL Lady Grace Mysteries (Elizabethan England) - F CAV The Truth about Verity Sparks (1878) - F GRE Roman Mysteries (ancient Rome) Cat Royal series (late C18th) Series of Unfortunate Events (late Victorian) - F SNI Murder Most Unladylike (1930s) - Ms Carmyn has this series The Agency series (late Victorian) - Ms Carmyn has this series Finishing School series (C19th steampunk) - F CAR Girl with a Pearl Earing - F CHE |
Multicultural stories
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Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
To Kill a Mockingbird Lies we Tell ourselves - F TAL Namma (Tibet) - F KAR Chains (US slavery) - F AND Does my head look big in this (Australian Muslim) - F ABD Hate is such a strong word (Australian Muslim) - F AYO Ten thing I hate about me (Australian Muslim) - F ABD Whisper (Aboriginal) - F DOD The Happiest Refugee (vietnamese Australian) - F DO China coin (Chinese australina) - F BAI |
Non-fiction
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Big Book of Girls' Stuff
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Religion and spirituality
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I am Rebecca - F BEA
People Might Hear You - F KLE Grace - F GLE Dancing in the Dark - F BAV |
Romance
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Girl Online Series - F SLU
Bad Girls - F WIL How they met and other stories - F LEV Queen of Barbie, Princess diaries or airhead series - F CAB Manifesto on how to be interesting (deals with OCD) - F BOU Not in the script - F FIN any thing by Sarah Dessen: What happened to Goodbye, Along for the ride - F DES Everyday, Naomi and Eli's No Kiss List, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - F LEV Pushing the Limits series (you can read these out of order because each has different characters) - F MCG Girls Saves Boy - F BOW Wide awake, Two boys kissing, Are we there yet (LGTBI) - F LEV Soulmates - F BOU S.A.S.S series (about girls overseas on student exchange; each has different characters)) - F APE, FER , STR, HAP, NEL The Lover's Dictionary, the Realm of Possibilities, - F LEV Nowhere but here (bikkie gang references) - F MCG Vanity Fair - F THA Portrait of a Lady - Read online or listen to the audiobook, Ms Carmyn also has a copy Lorna Doone - Katherine Mansfield short stories - Ms Carmyn has a copy Noughts and Crosses Great Gatsby Wuthering Heights Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Falling for Hamlet Joel and Cat set the story straight - F EAR Fangirl - F ROW Flywheel (LGBTI) - F GOU Prom and Prejudice - F EUL Tessa Masterton will go to the prom (LGBTI) - F FRA Geekgirl series - F SMA Eleanor and Park - F ROW This is what happy looks like - F SMI |
School Stories
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Murder Most Unladylike - Ms Carmyn has this series
Little Men Tom Brown's Schooldays Hating Alison Ashley Penny Pollard's diary |
Sport Stories
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White Boots (Ice skating) - F STR
Swallows and Amazons (Sailing) F RAN Surf Sisters (surfing) - F CRO Keeper (soccer) - F PEE the Life and Times of Gracie Faltrain (soccer) - F CRO Making the Most of it (swimming) - F FOR Rock Dancer (gymnastics, rock climbing) - F BLA |
Tough Stuff
These books have very serious themes. They are written for much older teens, so choose very carefully and discuss them with a parent or teacher. If you find something in one of these books upsetting you don't have to finish the book, and you should definitely talk to a parent, teacher, counselor or the librarian about it.
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HATE (racism)- F GIB
The Hate You Give (racism and the Black Lives Matter movement) F THO When she hollers (serious abuse) F VOI Stolen (abduction and captivity) - F CHR Speak (depression, elective mutism) - F AND (Don't read this if your actually feeling depressed though!) Song of an Innocent Bystander (Hostage situations, the nature of truth) Willow tree and Olive (serious abuse) - F SAV My Sister Rosa (mental illness, violence) - F LAB Bitter End (domestic violence) - F BRO Unspeakable (misuse of social media, adult themes) - F RUS Paper Butterflies (domestic abuse, violence) - F HEA Museum of Intangible things (mental illness, violence, very dark) - F WUN Defending Jacob (child murder) - F LAN |
War stories
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The Silver Sword - F SER
I am Malala - F YOU the Cat on the Wall - F ELL Tomorrow when the war began - F MAR Within these walls - F BAV Where the Streets had no name - F ABD The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - F BOY No more boarders for Josef - F CHA Maxx - F COH Zlata's Diary - F FIL AK - F DIC Auslander - F DOW Now, Then, After - F GLE Off to war, Three wishes - F ELL |