# Realistic Fiction books about best friends

**3** realistic fiction books that explore best friends, 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:** best friends
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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 best friends reading list

- [The Second Summer of the Sisterhood](https://readinglist.school/book/the-second-summer-of-the-sisterhood) by Ann Brashares _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2003)_
- [We Forgot Brock!](https://readinglist.school/book/we-forgot-brock) by Carter Goodrich _(Grades K–3 · pub 2015)_
- [When Zachary Beaver Came to Town](https://readinglist.school/book/when-zachary-beaver-came-to-town) by Kimberly Willis Holt _(Grades 2–8 · pub 1999)_

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