9 Best realistic fiction books like Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5) by Atinuke

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Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5)

By: Atinuke

4.45

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Anna Hibiscus is back from Canada, and so much has changed while she was away! Double and Trouble h…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5) by Atinuke , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7) by Beverly Cleary

1. Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)

By: Beverly Cleary

4.08

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

From the moment Howie Kemp's mysterious "rich" Uncle Hobart arrives from Saudi Arabia, everything a… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
"We can't always do what we want in life," answered her father, "so we do the best we can."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)

"Ramona did not know what to say. She did not feel words like darling or adorable fitted this baby."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)

"Nothing in the world was worse than unhappy parents. Nothing. When parents were unhappy, the whole world seemed to go wrong."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)

"It isn't fair, Ramona told herself, even though grown-ups were always telling her life was not fair. It wasn't fair that life was not fair."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever (Ramona, #7)

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2. Gooney Bird Greene

By: Lois Lowry , Middy Thomas

3.99

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of a… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
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3. Thimbleberry Stories

By: Cynthia Rylant , Maggie Kneen

4.25

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Nigel Chipmunk lives in a cozy little cottage on Thimbleberry Lane, and he has wonderful neighbors … read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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4. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

By: Elizabeth George Speare

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Newbery Medal Winner (1959) Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the col… read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
"People are afraid of things they don’t understand."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

"She and Prudence sat on a cool grassy carpet. A pale green curtain of branches just brushed the grasses and threw a filigree of shadows, as delicate as the wrought silver, on the child’s face."

-Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

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5. The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

By: Elizabeth Enright

4.17

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

Saturdays can make dreams come true when the Melendy children take turns to spend their pooled al… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirlin…"

-Elizabeth Enright, The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1)

Cover of Henry and Beezus (Henry Huggins, #2) by Tracy Dockray, Beverly Cleary

6. Henry and Beezus (Henry Huggins, #2)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

All Henry Huggins wants is his very own bicycle, a shiny red one to ride up and down Klickitat Stre… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
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7. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)

By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.15

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a trick up her sleeve. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone lo… read more

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  • humor
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)

"Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her."

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)

"When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy cane at the same time and drooled candy cane juice on the colored …"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #2)

Cover of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1) by Alexandra Boiger, Betty MacDonald

8. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

By: Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle lives in an upside-down house and smells li… read more

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  • humor
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

"Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She…"

-Alexandra Boiger, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, #1)

Cover of Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4) by Beverly Cleary, Alan Tiegreen

9. Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

By: Beverly Cleary , Alan Tiegreen

4.05

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This is the fourth title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona's father has lost… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
"Having a sister who tried to act like the Virgin Mary was not easy for a girl who felt as Ramona did."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"No family is perfect. Get that idea out of your head. And nobody is perfect either. All we can do is work at it. And we do."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do."

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

"Clank, crash, clank. Ramona forgot about her father being out of a job, she forgot how cross he had been since he gave up smoking, she forgot about her mother coming home tired from work and about Be…"

-Beverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Father (Ramona, #4)

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10. Dragons and Marshmallows

By: Marion Lindsay , Asia Citro

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

With magical animals, science, mystery, and adventure -- the brand new series Zoey and Sassafras ha… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2) by Beverly Cleary

11. Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)

By: Beverly Cleary

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

This is the second title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona doesn't think she… read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
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12. The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

By: Garth Williams , George Selden

4.04

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tire… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Harry had been down to Washington Square to hear an open-air concert of chamber music. How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn't understand—but it was New York and anything could happe…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still …"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

"Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their face…"

-Garth Williams, The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)

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13. The Night Fairy

By: Angela Barrett , Laura Amy Schlitz

3.50

Format: 240 pages,

What would happen to a new night fairy whose wings were accidentally chewed off by a sleepy hungry … read more

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  • childrens
  • fiction
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14. The Storm

By: Cynthia Rylant , Preston McDaniels

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Life with only the sea can be lonely. Just ask Pandora and Seabold. They've lived most of their liv… read more

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  • family
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona, #5) by Beverly Cleary

15. Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona, #5)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you a… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • childrens
  • fiction

16. Blue Bay Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #6)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner , Dirk Gringhuis

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea island. How did he get there and who is he? read more

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17. Mike's Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #5)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner , Dirk Gringhuis

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Benny and his friend Mike are in trouble when they are curious about a uranium mine. read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Stuart Little by E.B. White, Garth Williams

18. Stuart Little

By: E.B. White , Garth Williams

3.90

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"Well,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"Very fine law,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

Cover of The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, Fred Marcellino

19. The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino

4.10

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more

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  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
"When in love, one must take risks."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."

-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

20. King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone sta… read more

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Cover of All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1) by Sydney Taylor

21. All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)

By: Sydney Taylor

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement … read more

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  • family
  • childrens
  • fiction

22. Mystery Ranch (The Boxcar Children, #4)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch. The Aldens overturn a plot against her. read more

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23. More Stories from Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic, #2)

By: Arleta Richardson , None

4.10

Format: None pages,

Stories to Love, Laugh, and Live By If you are young enough to love a story;and just about everyone… read more

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24. In Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic, #1)

By: Arleta Richardson , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pieces of Magic Remember when you were a child--when all the world was new, and the smallest object… read more

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25. Ramona's World (Ramona, #8)

By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ramona Quimby can't wait to start fourth grade. With a new baby sister to brag about, new calluses … read more

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26. The Turtle

By: Cynthia Rylant , Preston McDaniels

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A thick fog has found its way up north to the lighthouse family, surrounding the cliffs and waters … read more

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27. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more

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28. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man, #12)

By: Dav Pilkey

4.61

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Our canine superhero returns in DOG MAN: THE SCARLET SHEDDER, the suspenseful and hilarious twelfth… read more

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  • humor
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el

29. The Very, Very Far North

By: Dan Bar-el

4.19

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

An inquisitive polar bear named Duane befriends an array of animals as he discovers where he belong… read more

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  • humor
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • fiction
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30. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

Cover of Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5) by Atinuke

31. Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5)

By: Atinuke

4.45

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Anna Hibiscus is back from Canada, and so much has changed while she was away! Double and Trouble h… read more

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  • africa
  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 1st grade

23 Best fiction books like Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! (Anna Hibiscus, #5) by Atinuke

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Beverly Cleary

4.08

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Gooney Bird Greene

Lois Lowry , Middy Thomas

3.99

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Thimbleberry Stories

Cynthia Rylant , Maggie Kneen

4.25

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Elizabeth George Speare

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3.93

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4.03

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Alexandra Boiger , Betty MacDonald

4.16

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