A Star Is Born
by Walter Dean Myers • Book 3 of the Cruisers Series
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2012
Word Count 25,895
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 810L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 153347
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Theater--Fiction
- Gifted children--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
- Schools
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Siblings
- Gifted children
- Brothers and sisters
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Performing Arts | Theater & Musicals
- Middle schools--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Disabilities & Special Needs
- Middle schools
- African Americans--Fiction
- African Americans
- Schools--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Brothers and sisters--Fiction
- Theater
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Autism
- Autism--Fiction
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