# Realistic Fiction books about animals

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

**Genre:** Realistic Fiction  ·  **Theme:** animals
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Realistic Fiction animals reading list

- [A Boy Called Bat](https://readinglist.school/book/a-boy-called-bat) by Elana K. Arnold _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2017)_
- [Are You My Mother?](https://readinglist.school/book/are-you-my-mother) by P. D. Eastman _(Grades K–1 · pub 1960)_
- [Mei Li](https://readinglist.school/book/mei-li) by Thomas Handforth _(Grades K–3 · pub 1938)_
- [Put Me in the Zoo](https://readinglist.school/book/put-me-in-the-zoo) by Robert Lopshire _(Grades K–1 · pub 1960)_

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