# Middle Grade Fiction books about resilience

**3** middle grade fiction books that explore resilience, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Reading levels:** Lexile measures range from 550L to 1010L across these 3 titles.

**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction  ·  **Theme:** resilience
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Middle Grade Fiction resilience reading list

- [Fish in a Tree](https://readinglist.school/book/fish-in-a-tree) by Lynda Mullaly Hunt _(550L · Grades 4–7 · pub 2015)_
- [Just Keep Walking](https://readinglist.school/book/just-keep-walking) by Erin Soderberg Downing _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2024)_
- [The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-bad-beginning) by Lemony Snicket _(1010L · Grades 4–7 · pub 1999)_

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