Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda
by Elisabeth Combres and Shelley Tanaka
Almost ten years have passed since the Rawandan genocide, and teenage Emma has blocked... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2009
Word Count 14,100
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 134414
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Genocide
- Tutsi (Peuple d'Afrique)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Fiction
- Hutu (African people)
- Genocide--Rwanda--Fiction
- GeĢnocide--Rwanda--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Rwanda--History--20th century--Fiction
- Tutsi (African people)
- Hutu (Peuple d'Afrique)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Hutu (African people)--Fiction
- Tutsi (African people)--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Africa
- Genocide--Fiction
- Rwanda--Histoire--1994 (Guerre civile)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Rwanda
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- Global Reading
- Survival Books
- International Books, 2010
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