American Street
by Ibi Zoboi
Fabiola Toussaint hopes to find the American dream when she comes with her mother... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2017
Word Count 73,622
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 690L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 187750
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Immigrants--Juvenile fiction
- Haitians--United States--Juvenile fiction
- Schools
- Immigrants
- New students--Young adult fiction
- Mothers and daughters
- Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / New Experience
- Haitians
- American Dream
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Parents
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Parents
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Cousins--Juvenile fiction
- Michigan--Detroit
- Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction
- Cousins--Fiction
- Haitians--United States--Fiction
- American Dream--Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction
- Cousins
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants--Fiction
- Detroit (Mich.)--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- United States
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration
- Interpersonal relations
- Young Adult Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
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Awards & Distinctions 5

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Winner, 2018

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2018

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
City Selection, 2017
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