How to Save a Life
by Sara Zarr
High school senior Jill grew up in an upper middle class home with two great parents.... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2011
Word Count 86,114
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 710L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 147220
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Colorado
- Mothers and daughters
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Pregnancy
- Grief--Fiction
- Pregnancy--Fiction
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women
- Grief
- Adoption--Fiction
- Pregnancy
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Adoption
- Family life
- Family life--Colorado--Fiction
- Denver (Colo.)--Fiction
- Adoption
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Denver (Colo.)
- Interpersonal relations
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Sara Zarr about How to Save a Life
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Sara Zarr
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 2
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Ariadne Meyers and Cassandra Morris
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Awards & Distinctions 3

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Young Adults Selection, 2012

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2011
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