# Realistic Fiction books about resilience

**3** realistic fiction books that explore resilience, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Reading levels:** Lexile measures range from 640L to 640L across these 3 titles.

**Genre:** Realistic Fiction  ·  **Theme:** resilience
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Realistic Fiction resilience reading list

- [Forged by Fire](https://readinglist.school/book/forged-by-fire) by Sharon M. Draper _(Grades 7–10 · pub 2009)_
- [Front Desk](https://readinglist.school/book/front-desk) by Kelly Yang _(640L · Grades 3–7 · pub 2018)_
- [The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman](https://readinglist.school/book/the-tenth-mistake-of-hank-hooperman) by Gennifer Choldenko _(Grades 6–9 · pub 2024)_

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