Aldabra, or the Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare
by Silvana Gandolfi
A story set in contemporary Venice starts out as realistic fiction and slides seamlessly... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
Year Published 2004
Word Count 35,185
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 77379
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Magic--Fiction
- Aldabra tortoise
- Grandmothers
- Mothers and daughters
- Magic
- Human-animal relationships--Fiction
- Venice (Italy)--Fiction
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Grandmothers--Fiction
- Venice (Italy)
- Italy--Fiction
- Human-animal relationships
- Aldabra tortoise--Fiction
- Italy
- Turtles
- Turtles--Fiction
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