The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
by Shannon Hitchcock
It's 1922, and Jessie has big plans for her future, but that's before tuberculosis... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2013
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 560L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Tuberculosis
- North Carolina
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
- Historical fiction
- Children's Books/All Ages
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | Country Life
- Farm life
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
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