Where the Streets Had a Name
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat and her Palestinian family have lived in Bethlehem, only... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Middle Eastern
Year Published 2010
Word Count 55,796
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 140862
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- West Bank
- Family life--Bethlehem--Fiction
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Palestinian Arabs--Fiction
- 1993-
- Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Fiction
- Palestinian Arabs
- Bethlehem
- Family life
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Middle East
- West Bank--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Family
- Global Reading
- Peace and Social Justice
- Fiction Books, 6-8
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Awards & Distinctions 2

Middle East Book Award, 2000-2020
Winner, 2011

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011
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