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