Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, and Other Female Villains
by Jane Yolen
From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2013
Word Count 18,711
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 800L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 156827, 3.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Women murderers--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Female offenders--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Female offenders
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
- Women murderers
- Femmes fatales
- Femmes fatales--Biography--Juvenile literature
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