Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
"Ruby, where is your mother?"
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2008
Word Count 113,464
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 121303
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Abandoned children--Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Siblings
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes - Sexual
- Emotional problems
- Abandoned children--Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction
- Families
- Families--Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers
- Child abuse--Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse--Fiction
- Abandoned children
- Interpersonal relations
- Emotional problems--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Sarah Dessen about Lock and Key
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Sarah Dessen
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 4
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Discussion Questions from Penguin Publishing Group USA
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Book Club Kit from Penguin Publishing Group USA
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Jodi Dick
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