# Realistic Fiction books about friendship, fiction

**7** realistic fiction books that explore friendship, 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:** friendship, 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 friendship, fiction reading list

- [Amos & Boris](https://readinglist.school/book/amos-boris) by William Steig _(Grades 2–3 · pub 1971)_
- [Beware of Boys](https://readinglist.school/book/beware-of-boys) by Tony Blundell _(Grades K–3 · pub 1992)_
- [Faking Normal](https://readinglist.school/book/faking-normal) by Courtney C. Stevens _(Grades 9–12 · pub 2014)_
- [Heart of a Champion](https://readinglist.school/book/heart-of-a-champion) by Carl Deuker _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1993)_
- [My Friend the Vampire](https://readinglist.school/book/my-friend-the-vampire) by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg _(Grades 3–5 · pub 1984)_
- [Poppleton in Winter](https://readinglist.school/book/poppleton-in-winter) by Cynthia Rylant _(Grades 2–3 · pub 2001)_
- [The Hot and Cold Summer](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hot-and-cold-summer) by Johanna Hurwitz _(Grades 3–6 · pub 1982)_

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