The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
This National Book Award Finalist is soon to be a major motion picture -- one of... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2008
Word Count 81,744
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 790L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 126580, 12.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- Self-destructive behavior--Fiction
- Family life--Oklahoma--Fiction
- Dating (Social customs)
- Family
- Stepfamilies
- Schools
- Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
- Self-destructive behavior
- Family life
- High schools
- Stepfamilies--Fiction
- Oklahoma
- Substance abuse
- Schools--Fiction
- High schools--Fiction
- Dating (Social customs)--Fiction
- Oklahoma--Fiction
- Substance abuse--Fiction
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