The Stars at Oktober Bend
by Glenda Millard
Beautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized... read more
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- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
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Year Published 2018
Word Count 51,185
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 700L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 501484, 8 AR Points
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- English Language Arts
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- Refugees--Fiction
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- Teenage boys--Juvenile fiction
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