
Title: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Author: Susin Nielsen
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 256
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes

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Title: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Author: Susin Nielsen
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 256
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: 3 NBs of Julian Drew
Author: James M. Deem
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 208
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Hazard
Author: Frances O’Roark Dowell
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction/Books in Verse
Number of Pages: 160
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Susie B. Won’t Back Down
Author: Margaret Finnegan
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 272
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Take Me With You When You Go
Author(s): David Levithan & Jennifer Niven
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 336
Rating: A-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Wenny Has Wings
Author: Janet Lee Carey
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 240
Rating: C+
Recommended?: No
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Title: Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 132
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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This is another scene from one of my manuscripts, the project is a epistolary novel made up of emails exchanged between Libby, a college dropout, and a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s named Parker (for a scene focusing on Libby, click here.) I myself have Asperger’s and I put some of my own experiences into the character.
This is an excerpt from a manuscript I wrote about an online friendship between a college dropout and a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s written in epistolary format and this scene is told from the young woman (the college drop-out)’s perspective.
Title: The Ship We Built
Author: Lexie Bean
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 287
Rating: A
Recommended?: Yes
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