The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2008
Word Count 34,272
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 129053
- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Grandmothers--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Family
- Death--Fiction
- Death--Juvenile fiction
- Grandmothers
- Schools
- Family life
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Hispanic Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic Americans--Fiction
- Death
- Family life--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
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Awards & Distinctions 1
Américas Award, 1993-2019
Commended, 2009
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