Looking for the Easy Life
by Walter Dean Myers and Lee Harper
Life's pretty good on Monkey Island. All day long, the monkeys sit around talking... read more
- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Fairy Tales / Folklore
Year Published 2011
Word Count 1,643
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 640L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 142983
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
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