Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice
by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, and Jennifer Zivoin
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- PK-2
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- Picture Book
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 986
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 540L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 511216, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Police shootings--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Prejudices
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- Prejudices--Fiction
- Police shootings
- Juvenile Fiction | Law & Crime
- Racism--Fiction
- Picture books
- Racism
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
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