Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2017
Word Count 77,935
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 196197
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Drug addicts
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- African American families
- Fiction | Literary
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Mississippi
- African American families--Mississippi--Fiction
- Road fiction
- FICTION / African American / General
- Children of drug addicts
- Fiction | African American | General
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Fiction - General
- Thrillers (Fiction)
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Awards & Distinctions 2
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Adult Crossover Selection, 2018
Indies Choice Book Awards
Winner, 2018
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