# Realistic Fiction books about kindness

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

- [Each Kindness](https://readinglist.school/book/each-kindness) by Jacqueline Woodson _(Grades 3–8 · pub 2012)_
- [Shiloh Season](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh-season) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 3–6 · pub 1996)_
- [Tucky Jo and Little Heart](https://readinglist.school/book/tucky-jo-and-little-heart) by Patricia Polacco _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2015)_

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