Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine
by Eileen Lucas and Mark Anthony
Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized... read more
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1997
Word Count 1,403
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 540L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 25249, 0.5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Civil rights
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- School integration
- Juvenile Nonfiction | School & Education
- Arkansas
- African Americans--Civil rights--History
- African American students
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History--Juvenile literature
- School integration--Arkansas--History
- African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations
- Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations--Juvenile literature
- African Americans
- History
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- Little Rock
- Race relations
- School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Little Rock (Ark.)
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