# Realistic Fiction books about grandfathers

**3** realistic fiction books that explore grandfathers, 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:** grandfathers
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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 grandfathers reading list

- [Clayton Byrd Goes Underground](https://readinglist.school/book/clayton-byrd-goes-underground) by Rita Williams-Garcia _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2017)_
- [Mississippi Trial, 1955](https://readinglist.school/book/mississippi-trial-1955) by Chris Crowe _(Grades 6–9 · pub 2002)_
- [The Fourteenth Goldfish](https://readinglist.school/book/the-fourteenth-goldfish) by Jennifer L. Holm _(Grades 4–6 · pub 2014)_

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