The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis
by Kim Ablon Whitney
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2009
Word Count 51,310
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 130152
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Juvenile fiction
- Jews
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish refugees--Fiction
- Ships--Fiction
- 1933-1945
- Jewish refugees
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction
- History
- Germany
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Holocaust
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Fiction
- Ships
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
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- Middle School Approved Novel List
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