Graham crackers

1. Panel five: realistic fiction
Ian Kim
Melanie Lusk
Paul Leigh
Monica Mansour
Ivan Oviedo
Chantel Lopez
Agnes Im
Wilson Hoang

2. What is Realistic Fiction?
• Originates from children’s imagination where
they see themselves:
- Taking action!
- Dodging danger!
- Savoring victories!
• Writers in realistic fiction use these elements
to provide:
- Complex Emotions
- Strong Characters
- Intricate narratives

4. The Bridge to Terabithia
“He was awake, jerked suddenly into
consciousness in the black stillness of the house. He
sat up, stiff and shivering, although he was fully
dressed from his windbreaker down to his sneakers.
He could hear the breathing of the little girls in the
next bed, strangely loud and uneven in the quiet. Some
dream must have awakened him, but he could not
remember it. He could only remember the mood of
dread it had brought with it. Through the curtainless
window he could see the lopsided moon with
hundreds of stars dancing in bright attendance.
It came into his mind that someone had told him that
Leslie was dead.”

6. The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants
"Maybe, she thought as she walked, Brian
McBrian was onto something important. Maybe
happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping
circumstances, about having everything in your life
in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a
bunch of small pleasures.”

8. Where the Red Fern
Grows
“I knelt down and put my arms around them. I
knew that if it hadn't been for their loyalty and
unselfish courage I would have probably been
killed by the slashing claws of the devil cat. 'I
don't know how I'll ever pay you back for what
you've done,' I said, 'but I'll never forget it.”

9. Beverly
Cleary
Author of the Ramona
series, The Mouse and the
Motorcycle series, and
Henry Huggins series.
- Beezus and
Ramona (1955)
- Ramona the
Pest (1968)
- Ramona the
Brave (1975)

11. Holes
“If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark
on the tree was just a little bit softer." While the
wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to
the moo— oo— oon, "If only, if only.“
"His muscles and hands weren't the only parts of
his body that had toughened over the past several
weeks. His heart had hardened as well.”

13. Antarctic
Penguins

14. Mr. Popper’s penguins
“He had succeeded in removing the outer boards and
part of the packing, which was a layer of dry ice,
when from the depths of the packing case he
suddenly heard a faint "Ork." His heart stood still.
Surely he had heard that sound before at the Drake
expedition movies. His hands were trembling so that
he could scarcely lift off the last of the
wrappings.
There was not the slightest doubt about it. It was a
penguin.
Mr. Popper was speechless with delight.”