Unit 5

What Can We Learn from Realistic Fiction?


 Lesson 5: Novel Study Introduction


So far in this unit, you have been reading stories that are realistic fiction - invented stories that might have happened.


Review definitions for the elements of a story, if necessary:

  • character
  • plot 
  • plot devices (suspense, surprise ending, flashback, foreshadowing)
  • setting
  • conflict
  • point of view
  • mood
  • theme

To begin your novel study, choose one of the novels featured below. You should have already read the novel before you begin the next two lessons.


Information is provided about each novel, as well as its author.





Novel Choice 1:

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

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Novel Choice 2:

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

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Novel Choice 3:

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Novel Choice 4:

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

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