The Dead Inside: A True Story
by Cyndy Etler
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2012
Word Count 61,940
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 640L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 192056
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Youth
- Substance abuse treatment facilities
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Drama
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
- Substance abuse
- Drug use
- Youth--Drug use--United States--Juvenile literature
- Young Adult Social Situations
- Straight, Inc
- Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--United States--Juvenile literature
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Depression & Mental Illness
- Treatment
- United States
- Runaway teenagers
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | General
- Drug abuse
- Etler, Cyndy
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