Kissing the Rain
by Kevin Brooks
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 84,623
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 640L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 77002
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Trials (Murder)
- Overweight persons
- Criminals
- Overweight persons--Fiction
- Emotional problems
- England
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Criminals--Fiction
- Bullying--Fiction
- Police--Fiction
- Bullies
- Police
- Bullying
- Emotional problems--Fiction
- Trials (Murder)--Fiction
- England--Fiction
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