# Amos & Boris

**Author:** William Steig
**Grade range:** Grades 2–3
**Age range:** 7–8
**First published:** 1971
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780140502299`
**ISBN-10:** `0140502297`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/amos-boris
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.

## Themes

- mice, fiction
- whales, fiction
- friendship, fiction
- whales

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)

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