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.
Length depends a lot on genre, style, and the story to be told. Frothy mysteries by established authors, like The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun can be as short as 200 pages or about 50,000 words. Her earlier books in the series were closer to 300 pages (75,000 words).