Rain Is Not My Indian Name
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The next day was my fourteenth birthday, and I'd never kissed a boy -- domestic... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- American Indian
Year Published 2001
Word Count 30,907
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 860L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 50386, 5.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Death--Fiction
- Photography--Fiction
- Indians of North America--Fiction
- Photography
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Grief--Fiction
- Death
- Grief
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
- Indians of North America
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