The Rock and the River

Year Published 2009

Word Count 59,211

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 550L
• ATOS Reading Level: 3.9

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 128762

• Curricular Area
• English Language Arts
• History

• Subject Headings
• 20th century
• Chicago
• Brothers
• Civil rights movements--Fiction
• Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
• Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
• Chicago (Ill.)
• African Americans--Fiction
• Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
• African Americans
• Illinois
• History
• Brothers--Fiction
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
• Black Panther Party
• Racism--Fiction
• United States
• Black Panther Party--Fiction
• Racism
• United States--History--20th century--Fiction
• Civil rights movements

• Lists With This Book
• Great Middle School Reads
• Civil Rights Movement
• Choice Texts Gr. 7
• YA Resists
• Living Through Big Changes
• Black History Secondary
• Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults
• Civil Rights Teaching
• Black Lives Matter: Black Villages
• Black Lives Matter: Restorative Justice
• Black Lives Matter: Collective Value
• Black Lives Matter: Empathy
• BLM: Unapologetically Black
• Black Lives Matter: Black Families
• Black Lives Matter: Intergenerational