Yard War
by Taylor Kitchings
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Sports
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2015
Word Count 48,368
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 770L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 175802
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Physical Education
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Racism--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Football
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- Mississippi
- Nineteen sixties
- Jackson (Miss.)
- Family life--Mississippi--Fiction
- Race relations--Juvenile fiction
- Neighbors--Fiction
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Family life
- Neighbors
- Jackson (Miss.)--History--Juvenile fiction
- Jackson (Miss.)--History--20th century--Fiction
- African Americans--Fiction
- Nineteen sixties--Fiction
- African Americans
- History
- Football
- Race relations--Fiction
- Nineteen sixties--Juvenile fiction
- Football--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Families--Mississippi--Juvenile fiction
- Football stories
- Racism--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Neighbors--Juvenile fiction
- Families
- Racism
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Race relations
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