Great Joy
by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Ibatoulline
Looking out her window to the snowy city streets below, bustling with holiday shoppers... read more
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- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Holiday
- Realistic Fiction
- Picture Book
Year Published 2007
Word Count 734
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 680L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 119066, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Monkeys--Juvenile fiction
- Pageants--Fiction
- Christmas
- Monkeys--Fiction
- Sympathy--Fiction
- Monkeys
- Organ grinders--Juvenile fiction
- Picture books for children
- Organ grinders
- Pageants
- Homeless persons--Fiction
- Sympathy
- Christmas--Fiction
- Pageants--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Christmas & Advent
- Homeless persons
- Homeless persons--Juvenile fiction
- Christmas stories
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- Organ grinders--Fiction
- Sympathy--Juvenile fiction
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Awards & Distinctions 1

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Selection, 2008
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