Hero
by Mike Lupica
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2010
Word Count 52,225
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 139482
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Death--Fiction
- Heroes
- Fathers and sons--Fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Superheroes
- Heroes--Fiction
- New York
- Politics, Practical--Fiction
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction
- New York (State)
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Family life
- Death
- Families
- New York (N.Y.)
- Politics, Practical
- Young Adult Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- SpringBoard, Grade 8 Unit 1
- 6th Grade ELA Summer Reading
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