How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (Latin America)
Year Published 1991
Word Count 79,910
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 950L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 21597, 13 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
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- Hispanic Heritage Month
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- Sample: Springboard
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