A Girl Called Problem
by Katie Quirk
In 1967, thirteen-year-old Shida and most of the rest of her Sukuma village of Litongo,... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- African
Year Published 2013
Word Count 44,790
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 770L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 159657, 7 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Farm life--Tanzania--Fiction
- Healers--Fiction
- Tanzania--History--1964---Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters
- Blessing and cursing--Fiction
- 1964-
- Sukuma (African people)
- Tanzania--History--1964---Fiction
- Villages--Fiction
- Moving, Household
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Moving, Household--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Africa
- Villages
- Sukuma (African people)--Fiction
- Tanzania
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General
- Farm life
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
- Blessing and cursing
- Healers
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
- Young Adult Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- It's a Mystery
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About the Author 2
Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 4
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Awards & Distinctions 2
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2023
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2014
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