# Finding Normal

**Author:** Stephanie Faris
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 304
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781665938921`
**ISBN-10:** `1665938927`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/finding-normal
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After a flood destroys her home, twelve-year-old Temple has to start over in a new town in this middle-grade novel about belonging and community.

## Where this book is assigned

### Mississippi Magnolia Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Mississippi — [source: Mississippi Library Association / USM — 2026 Magnolia Book Awards nominees (student-choice; PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 divisions)](https://aquila.usm.edu/magnolia_book_awards/12)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Mississippi — [source: Mississippi Library Association / USM — 2026 Magnolia Book Awards nominees (student-choice; PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 divisions)](https://aquila.usm.edu/magnolia_book_awards/12)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Mississippi — [source: Mississippi Library Association / USM — 2026 Magnolia Book Awards nominees (student-choice; PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 divisions)](https://aquila.usm.edu/magnolia_book_awards/12)

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