# Realistic Fiction books about child abuse

**4** realistic fiction books that explore child abuse, 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:** child abuse
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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 child abuse reading list

- [Call Me Hope](https://readinglist.school/book/call-me-hope) by Gretchen Olson _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2007)_
- [Don't Hurt Laurie](https://readinglist.school/book/dont-hurt-laurie) by Willo Davis Roberts _(Grades 4–8 · pub 1977)_
- [Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey](https://readinglist.school/book/dont-you-dare-read-this-mrs-dunphrey) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 6–9 · pub 1996)_
- [The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson](https://readinglist.school/book/the-true-colors-of-caitlynne-jackson) by Carol Lynch Williams _(Grades 6–9 · pub 1997)_

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