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Realistic Fiction for High School Readers
Posted 02/25/21 by Anne K
Realistic fiction features characters facing everyday problems in a current setting. Check out the following titles for teens.
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Dear Martin
Spoken CD | eBook | eAudiobookDig
eBookThe Female of the Species
eBook | eAudiobook | hoopla eBook | hoopla eAudiobookGentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
eBook | eAudiobookLong Way Down
eBook | eAudiobookOn the Come Up
Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook | hoopla eBook | hoopla eAudiobookFrankly in Love
eBook | eAudiobookPatron Saints of Nothing
eBook | eAudiobookThe Poet X
Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook | hoopla eBook | hoopla eAudiobookA Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
eBookThey Both Die at the End
eBook | eAudiobook | hoopla eBook | hoopla eAudiobookWhat If It’s Us
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