America, My New Home
by Monica Gunning and Ken Condon
From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to... read more
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Cultural Experience
- African (Global)
Year Published 2004
Word Count 1,346
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 790L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 79929, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile poetry
- Jamaica--Juvenile poetry
- Emigration and immigration--Poetry
- Immigrants
- Poetry | American | General
- Jamaican Americans
- Children's poetry, American
- Jamaica
- Immigrants--Poetry
- Jamaica--Poetry
- United States--Juvenile poetry
- Emigration and immigration
- Jamaican Americans--Poetry
- Jamaican Americans--Juvenile poetry
- United States
- Immigrants--Juvenile poetry
- American poetry
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Monica Gunning
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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