Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
by Julie T. Lamana
A ten-year-old girl learns the importance of family and community in this tale of... read more
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2014
Word Count 75,053
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 750L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 166193, 11 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Fiction
- African American families
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 21st Century
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Juvenile fiction
- Survival--Louisiana--New Orleans--Juvenile fiction
- New Orleans (La.)
- Lower Ninth Ward (New Orleans, La.)--Juvenile fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Survival--Fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction
- Lower Ninth Ward
- Juvenile works
- New Orleans (La.)--Fiction
- New Orleans
- New Orleans (La.)--Juvenile fiction
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005
- Family life
- African Americans--Fiction
- African Americans
- Lower Ninth Ward (New Orleans, La.)
- Louisiana
- Survival
- Family life--Louisiana--Fiction
- African American families--Louisiana--New Orleans--Juvenile fiction
- Lists With This Book
- African American Experience
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