A Blade So Black
by L.L. McKinney
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
Year Published 2018
Word Count 88,571
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 199145
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
- Magic--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy | Contemporary
- Good and evil--Fiction
- Good and evil--Juvenile fiction
- Nightmares--Juvenile fiction
- Imaginary wars and battles--Fiction
- Imaginary places--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance | Multicultural & Interracial
- Young Adult Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore | Adaptations
- Nightmares--Fiction
- Dreams--Fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy
- Young Adult Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
- Atlanta (Ga)--Fiction
- Characters in literature--Fiction
- Teenage girls--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure
- African Americans--Fiction
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States - African American
- Urban fiction
- Young Adult Fiction
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