The Second Life of Abigail Walker
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2012
Word Count 37,775
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 153515
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Overweight persons
- Overweight persons--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Human-animal relationships--Fiction
- Self-confidence--Fiction
- Human-animal relationships
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Friendship--Fiction
- Friendship
- Self-confidence
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