| Contemporary Realistic Fiction 3-5 | |||||||||
| Author Name | Title | Illustrator | notes | ||||||
| Bruchac, Joseph | Eagle Song | Mohawk boy moves to NYC | |||||||
| Leitich Smith, Cynthia | Indian Shoes | humorous tales of a Seminole-Cherokee boy & his grandfather in Chicago | |||||||
| Yee, Lisa | Bobby the Brave (Sometimes) | funny chapter book about Bobby Ellis-Chan, an average fourth grade boy from an unconventional family | |||||||
| Connor, Leslie | Crunch | dystopian/ecological themes for middle graders within a funny family novel | |||||||
| Herrara, Juan Felipe | The Upside Down Boy | Elizabeth Gomez | Bilingual English/Spanish tale of a Latino by's adjustment to his new Anglo school | ||||||
| Perking, Mitali | Rickshaw Girl | Bangladeshi girl tries to work to help her family | |||||||
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | Sitti's Secrets | Nancy Carpenter | Palestine/US Family | ||||||
| Mohr, Nicholasa | The Magic Shell | Dominican Republic emigration story | |||||||
| Montes, Marisa | Get Ready for Gabi :Who’s that Girl? | Joe Copeda | Puerto Rican, family, friendship | ||||||
| Rumford, James | Silent Music a Story of Baghdad | Baghdad and war through the eyes of a boy who loves soccer & calligraphy | |||||||
| Alvarez, Julia | Return to Sender | VT immigrant farm worker | |||||||
| Branford, Henrietta | Fire Bed and Bone | class/economic issues in feudal England through the eyes of a dog | |||||||
| Hamilton, Virginia | Cousins | African American family life | |||||||
| Hesse, Karen | Just Juice | Robert Parker | class issues, Appalachian | ||||||
| Giff, Patricia Riley | Pictures of Hollis Wood | a foster child's search for a family | |||||||
| Gilmore, Rachna | A Group of One | Indian-Canadian immigrant family | |||||||
| Williams-Garcia, Rita | One Crazy Summer | 1960's Oakland, Penderwicks meet the Black Panthers | |||||||
| Ignatow, Amy | The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improv …. of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang | funny look at the search for popularity, diverse characters and families | |||||||
| Atinuke | Anna Hibiscus and Hooray for Anna Hibiscus | Lauren Tobia | Series of 4 books, about a girl living in urban West Africa | ||||||
| Lee, Marie G. | F is for Fabuloso | 7th grader immigrated to US from Korea has an F | |||||||
| Lainez, Rene Colato | My shoes and I | Fabricio Broek | Salvadoran immigrants | ||||||
| Thong, Roseanne | Fly Free | Eujin Kim Neilan | Vietnam | ||||||
| Malaspina, Ann | Yasmin's Hammer | Doug Chayka | Bangladesh girl who works dreams of school | ||||||
| Ramirez, Antonio | Napi Makes a Village | Domi | life of Mazateca girl in Mexico | ||||||
| Williams, Laura E. | The Can Man | Craig Orbeck | Homelessness gets a human face when Tim, a boy in an urban multiracial family, mets the Can Man | ||||||
| Grimes, Nikki | Make Way for Dynamode Daniel | third grader Dynamode Daniel wonders what's wrong with the new boy in her class | |||||||
| English, Karen | Nikki and Deja | Nikki & Deja's friendship is strained when a new girl moves to their street - middle class African American characters | |||||||
| Danticat, Edwidge | Eight Days | Alix Delinois | focuses on one child's survival of the 2010 Haitian earthquake | ||||||