Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
by Ronald Kidd
The year is 1925 and Dayton, Tennessee, is the hottest and the sleepiest place... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2006
Word Count 51,269
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 104896, 7.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Science
- History
- Subject Headings
- Fathers and daughters
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction
- 20th century
- Publicity
- Evolution--Study and teaching--Law and legislation--Fiction
- Trials, litigation, etc
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Scopes, John Thomas
- Evolution
- History
- Tennessee--History--20th century--Fiction
- Publicity--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Fiction
- Tennessee
- Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, litigation, etc.--Juvenile fiction
- Study and teaching
- Law and legislation
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