A Long Pitch Home
by Natalie Dias Lorenzi
A sensitive and endearing middle grade novel about a young Pakistani immigrant adjusting... read more
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- Muslim
- South Asian
Year Published 2016
Word Count 61,971
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 182415, 9 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Physical Education
- Subject Headings
- Pakistanis
- Fathers and sons--Fiction
- Pakistanis--United States--Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Culture shock--Juvenile fiction
- Pakistani Americans
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Culture shock--Fiction
- Muslims--Fiction
- Pakistani Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Pakistani Americans--Fiction
- Baseball
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Alternative Family
- Cousins--Juvenile fiction
- Baseball--Fiction
- Cousins--Fiction
- Pakistanis--United States--Fiction
- Cousins
- Family life
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- United States
- Families
- Culture shock
- Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Muslims
- Family life--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Muslim Kids as Heroes
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Awards & Distinctions 3
South Asia Book Award for Children's & Young Adult Literature, 2012-2023
Honor, 2017
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2017
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2023
Sports Selection, 2016
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