Realistic Fiction Books for 9th Graders

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• Armageddon Summer · Jane Yolen
• Bad · Jean Ferris
• Breaking Boxes · A. M. Jenkins
• Breathing Underwater · Alex Flinn
• Check & Mate · Ali Hazelwood
• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul · Jack Canfield
• Dairy Queen · Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares · Rachel Cohn
• Faking Normal · Courtney C. Stevens
• Five Survive · Holly Jackson
• Girl, Stolen · April Henry
• Hanging on to Max · Margaret Bechard
• High Heat · Carl Deuker
• House Arrest · K. A. Holt
• I Hunt Killers · Barry Lyga
• I am the Weapon · Allen Zadoff
• Instructions for Dancing · Nicola Yoon
• Ironman · Chris Crutcher
• Jumping the Nail · Eve Bunting
• Just Like Martin · Ossie Davis
• Learning to Swear in America · Katie Kennedy
• Mississippi Trial, 1955 · Chris Crowe
• Night Hoops · Carl Deuker
• Night Kites · M. E. Kerr
• Patron Saints of Nothing · Randy Ribay
• Paul, Big, and Small · David Glen Robb
• Perfect · Natasha Friend
• Perfect Chemistry · Simone Elkeles
• Posted · John David Anderson
• Romiette and Julio · Sharon M. Draper
• Room · Emma Donoghue
• Ruby Lost and Found · Christina Li
• Say Goodnight, Gracie · Julie Reece Deaver
• Shadow of the Dragon · Sherry Garland
• Shattering Glass · Gail Giles
• Sold · Patricia McCormick
• Someone Like You · Sarah Dessen
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes · Chris Crutcher
• Stuck in Neutral · Terry Trueman
• Tears of A Tiger · Sharon M. Draper
• The Brimstone Journals · Ron Koertge
• The China Garden · Liz Berry
• The Girls I've Been · Tess Sharpe
• The House Next Door · Richie Tankersley Cusick
• The Killer's Cousin · Nancy Werlin
• The Late Great Me · Sandra Scoppettone
• The Lovely Bones: A Novel · Alice Sebold
• The Only Alien on the Planet · Kristen D. Randle
• The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream · Davis Sampson
• The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich · Deya Muniz
• The Second Summer of the Sisterhood · Ann Brashares
• The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman · Gennifer Choldenko
• The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson · Carol Lynch Williams
• The Truth Trap · Frances A. Miller
• The Year of Secret Assignments · Jaclyn Moriarty
• Those Who Wish Me Dead · Michael Koryta
• Ties That Bind, Ties That Break · Lensey Namioka
• We All Fall Down · Robert Cormier
• What If It's Us · Becky Albertalli
• Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror · Avi
• Written in the Stars · Aisha Saeed
• A Taste of Honey · Shelagh Delaney
• A Time of Troubles · Pieter Van Raven
• Blues for an Alabama Sky · Pearl Cleage
• Fathers and Sons · Ivan Turgenev
• Fire on the Mountain · Anita Desai
• I'm the King of the Castle · Susan Hill
• Master Harold...and the Boys · Athol Fugard
• Princess & the Hustler · Chinonyerem Odimba
• The Honorable Prison · Lyll Becerra de Jenkins
• The Metamorphosis · Franz Kafka
• Two Suns in the Sky · Miriam Bat-Ami
• What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky · Lesley Nneka Arimah
• When We Were Birds · Ayanna Lloyd Banwo