Sam and the Lucky Money
by Karen Chinn, Cornelius Van Wright, and Ying-Hwa Hu
When Sam goes to Chinatown with his mother to shop for New Year's Day, he carries... read more
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- Grade
- PK-5
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Asian / Pacific American
Year Published 1995
Word Count 1,097
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 670L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 17734
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Lists With This Book
- Money
- Stories for the Chinese New Year
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