Year Published 2010

Word Count 45,483

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 750L
• ATOS Reading Level: 4.6

• AR Quiz Numbers
• Quiz 135338, 7.0 AR Points

• Curricular Area
• English Language Arts
• History
• Social Studies

• Subject Headings
• 20th century
• Oakland (Calif.)
• Civil rights movements--Fiction
• Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
• Mothers--Fiction
• African Americans--Fiction
• Sisters
• Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
• Sisters--Fiction
• African Americans
• History
• Poets--Fiction
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
• Poets
• Oakland (Calif.)--History--20th century--Fiction
• Black Panther Party
• Mothers
• Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
• Black Panther Party--Fiction
• Civil rights movements

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• Racism & Justice
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