The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
by Kate Messner
Gianna Z has less than one week to collect, identify, and creatively display 25 leaves... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Humor
- Realistic Fiction
- Sports
Year Published 2009
Word Count 48,454
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 710L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 132762, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Physical Education
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Grandmothers
- Old age--Fiction
- Schools
- Running--Fiction
- Trees--Fiction
- Trees
- Old age
- Running
- Vermont--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Grandmothers--Fiction
- Vermont
- Family life
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Schools--Fiction
- Family life--Vermont--Fiction
- Friendship--Fiction
- Friendship
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