20 Best realistic fiction books like Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz

Cover of Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz

Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

By: Niki Lenz

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bernice Buttman is tough, crass, and hilarious, and she just might teach you a thing or two about e…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone

1. Blood on the River: James Town 1607

By: Elisa Carbone

3.84

Format: 135 pages,

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the… read more

Similar categories in Elisa Carbone's Blood on the River: James Town 1607 book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1) by Jacqueline Davies

2. The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1)

By: Jacqueline Davies

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Hardcover

For a full hour, he poured lemonade. The world is a thirsty place, he thought as he nearly emptied … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Davies's The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1) book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile

3. Save Me a Seat

By: Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.… read more

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4. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. Freeman's Alone book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of City Spies (City Spies #1) by James Ponti

5. City Spies (City Spies #1)

By: James Ponti

4.31

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose h… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's City Spies (City Spies #1) book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong."

-James Ponti, City Spies (City Spies #1)

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6. Abuela, Don't Forget Me

By: Rex Ogle

4.50

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Abuela, Don't Forget Me book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • middle grade
  • family
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"

-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me

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7. Odder

By: Katherine Applegate

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Applegate's Odder book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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8. Millionaires for the Month

By: Stacy McAnulty

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"After seventh graders Benji and Felix "borrow" $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner chall… read more

Similar categories in Stacy McAnulty's Millionaires for the Month book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) by Stuart Gibbs

9. Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.33

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

From author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a new series about the world’s youngest and smart… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation (Charlie Thorne #1) book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
Cover of Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, #1) by Ally Carter

10. Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, #1)

By: Ally Carter

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn't expect to be th… read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, #1) book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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11. The Lion of Mars

By: Jennifer L. Holm

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

A kid raised on Mars learns that he can't be held back by the fears of the grown-ups around him. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Holm's The Lion of Mars book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
  • juvenile
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12. Song for a Whale

By: Lynne Kelly

4.23

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the … read more

Similar categories in Lynne Kelly's Song for a Whale book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A sound can move anything if it's strong enough."

-Lynne Kelly, Song for a Whale

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13. A Wish in the Dark

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Newbery Medal Honor Title (2021) A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. All light i… read more

Similar categories in Christina Soontornvat's A Wish in the Dark book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • juvenile
"You can't run away from darkness. It's everywhere. The only way to see through it is to shine a light."

-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark

"The world wasn't what I wanted it to be," Pong went on. "Not Chattana. Not even Tanaburi. I thought if I ran far enough, I could find that perfect place where life is fair and everything is good. But…"

-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark

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14. The Amelia Six

By: Kristin L. Gray

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Amelia Earhart’s famous aviator goggles go missing and eleven-year-old Millie has to find them befo… read more

Similar categories in Kristin L. Gray's The Amelia Six book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • juvenile
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15. The Bridge Home

By: Padma Venkatraman

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulne… read more

Similar categories in Padma Venkatraman's The Bridge Home book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"If I wanted a better future, I needed to change the life we had .Now."

-Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home

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16. Wink

By: Rob Harrell

4.27

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A wrenching and hilarious story about embracing life's weirdness and surviving an unthinkable diagn… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harrell's Wink book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

17. Shouting at the Rain

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audio CD

Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Mullaly Hunt's Shouting at the Rain book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
"So."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"the sun is always in the sky but sometimes you just can't see it"

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"I'm lucky. When the waves are rolling in, my friends are the jetties."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

"He was the one who told me a man is not made by his mistakes. He's made by what he does about them."

-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain

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18. Scritch Scratch

By: Lindsay Currie

3.92

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A ghost story about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the … read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Currie's Scritch Scratch book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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19. Thirst

By: Varsha Bajaj

4.14

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more

Similar categories in Varsha Bajaj's Thirst book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
Cover of Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt

20. Pay Attention, Carter Jones

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and al… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Pay Attention, Carter Jones book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
"Make good decisions and remember who you are, young Master Jones.’ He put his bowler back on. ‘You think I’m going to forget who I am?’ I said. ‘You are entering middle school now,’ he said. ‘I think…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Pay Attention, Carter Jones

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21. The Blackbird Girls

By: Anne Blankman

4.43

Format: None pages, None

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry re… read more

Similar categories in Anne Blankman's The Blackbird Girls book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
"La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts"

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

Cover of Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

22. Concealed

By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ivette Joanna And now: Katrina Whatever her name is, it won't last long. Katrina doesn't k… read more

Similar categories in Christina Diaz Gonzalez's Concealed book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • young adult
Cover of Shine! by J.J. Grabenstein

23. Shine!

By: J.J. Grabenstein

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Who do you want to be? asks Mr. Van Deusen. And not when you grow up. Right here, right now. Shine … read more

Similar categories in J.J. Grabenstein's Shine! book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught

24. Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

By: Susan Vaught

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

I could see the big inside of my Sam-Sam. I had been training him for 252 days with mini tennis bal… read more

Similar categories in Susan Vaught's Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Roll with It by Jamie Sumner

25. Roll with It

By: Jamie Sumner

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Sumner's Roll with It book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile
Cover of The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods

26. The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA

By: Brenda Woods

4.07

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a youn… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Woods's The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders

27. Coop Knows the Scoop

By: Taryn Souders

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The whole town is talking about what's buried beneath the playground... Windy Bottom, Georgia is… read more

Similar categories in Taryn Souders's Coop Knows the Scoop book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter (The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, #1) by Aaron Reynolds

28. The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter (The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, #1)

By: Aaron Reynolds

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Rex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for cryi… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Reynolds's The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter (The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, #1) book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • juvenile
Cover of The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington

29. The Elephant's Girl

By: Celesta Rimington

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An elephant never forgets...but Lexington Willow can't remember her past. When she was a toddler, a… read more

Similar categories in Celesta Rimington's The Elephant's Girl book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • family
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz

30. Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

By: Niki Lenz

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bernice Buttman is tough, crass, and hilarious, and she just might teach you a thing or two about e… read more

Similar categories in Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • humor
  • middle grade
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • kids
  • juvenile
Cover of The Memory Keeper by Jennifer Camiccia

31. The Memory Keeper

By: Jennifer Camiccia

4.18

Format: None pages, None

A story about long-buried secrets, the power of memory, and the bond between a girl and her gram.Al… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Camiccia's The Memory Keeper book and Niki Lenz's Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen

  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • juvenile

29 Best fiction books like Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by Niki Lenz

Transform Your Habits

Blood on the River: James Town 1607

Elisa Carbone

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Lemonade War (The Lemonade War, #1)

Jacqueline Davies

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Alone

Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

City Spies (City Spies #1)

James Ponti

4.31

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Transform Your Habits

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race (Mr. Lemoncello's Library #3)

Chris Grabenstein

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Mr. Terupt Falls Again (Mr. Terupt, #2)

Rob Buyea

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Ban This Book

Alan Gratz

4.41

Transform Your Habits

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Nic Stone

3.98

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