# Realistic Fiction books about dogs, fiction

**9** realistic fiction books that explore dogs, fiction, 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:** dogs, fiction
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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 dogs, fiction reading list

- [Big Ben](https://readinglist.school/book/big-ben) by David Harry Walker _(Grades 4–6 · pub 1969)_
- [Can I Be Your Dog?](https://readinglist.school/book/can-i-be-your-dog) by Troy Cummings _(Grades K–3 · pub 2018)_
- [Madeline Finn and the Library Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/madeline-finn-and-the-library-dog) by Lisa Papp _(Grades K–2 · pub 2016)_
- [My Dog, My Hero](https://readinglist.school/book/my-dog-my-hero) by Betsy Cromer Byars _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2000)_
- [Riptide](https://readinglist.school/book/riptide) by Frances Ward Weller _(Grades K–3 · pub 1990)_
- [Shiloh Season](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh-season) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 3–6 · pub 1996)_
- [The Good Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/the-good-dog) by Avi _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2001)_
- [Tornado](https://readinglist.school/book/tornado) by Betsy Cromer Byars _(Grades 3–6 · pub 1996)_
- [Widget](https://readinglist.school/book/widget) by Lyn Rossiter McFarland _(Grades K–3 · pub 2001)_

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