1 Stereotypes take into account characteristics, personality types, or behaviors. 2  Stereotypes have been used in the past to justify prejudicial attitudes and beliefs. 3  Authors use character stereotypes to help readers understand what is happening. A stereotype is an oversimplified and fixed idea of what a particular group of people are like or do. 2  Stereotypes take into account characteristics, personality types, or behaviors.
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume was a great realistic fiction book. I think this book would be ideal for advanced second grade readers and third grade level. This Judy Blume book is a story about a boy named Andrew who desperately wants freckles. A fellow classmate has countless freckles, and jealous Andrew has none.
Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse. It isnât surprising to read that Karen Hesse was thinking about speech when she began writing this book. But Mila was a girl who surprised everyone, even Karen, as she told her story. Mila is a young girl discovered by the Coast Guard on a island near the coast of Florida, alone and covered with barnacles, having lived with dolphins for an undetermined amount of time.