The Mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2012
Word Count 67,119
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 750L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 148755, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Flint (Mich.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Depressions
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Depressions--1929--Fiction
- Poverty--Fiction
- 1929
- Family life
- African Americans--Fiction
- Gary (Ind.)
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- African Americans
- History
- Flint (Mich.)
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Families
- Gary (Ind.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Family life--Fiction
- Poverty
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- Writers and Writing
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Fiction Selection, 2012
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