The Border
by Steve Schafer
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2017
Word Count 73,940
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 540L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 502753
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Voyages and travels--Fiction
- Gangs--Fiction
- Sonoran Desert
- Survival--Fiction
- Illegal aliens
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Murder--Fiction
- Murder
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Illegal aliens--Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Voyages and travels
- Survival
- Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
- Gangs
- Young Adult Fiction
- Sonoran Desert--Fiction
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