A Stone in My Hand
by Cathryn Clinton
Set in the Middle East in 1988, eleven-year-old Malaak's story centers around... read more
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Muslim
Year Published 2010
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 540L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Intifada, 1987-1993--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Palestinian Arabs--Gaza Strip--Fiction
- Jewish-Arab relations--Fiction
- Palestinian Arabs--Gaza Strip--Juvenile fiction
- Family life--Gaza Strip--Fiction
- Gaza Strip--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
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