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Title: Realistic Fiction


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Realistic Fiction
  • Childrens Literature
  • ELE300

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Realistic fiction defined...
  • Stories that could indeed happen to people
    and animals

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Historical Highlights
  • 1719 - Robinson Crusoe
  • 1744 John Newbery
  • Popular types of realistic fiction
  • Adventure, family, animal, and regional stories
  • 1964 - Harriet the Spy, age of New Realism

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Types of Realistic Fiction
  • Animal Stories
  • Sports Stories
  • Humorous Books
  • Mysteries
  • Series
  • Romance Novels
  • Family stories
  • Survival/adventure
  • Peers
  • Special Challenges
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Moral Choices
  • Rites of Passage

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Authors of Realistic Fiction
  • Lois Lowry
  • Katherine Paterson
  • Gary Paulsen
  • Beverly Cleary
  • Walter Dean Myers
  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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