Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday
by Natalie C. Anderson
Forced to become a child soldier, a sixteen-year-old Somali refugee must confront... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African
Year Published 2019
Word Count 106,064
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 650L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 500584, 15.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Somalia
- Brothers
- Islamic fundamentalism
- Refugees
- Spies--Fiction
- Child soldiers
- Terrorism--Fiction
- Somalia--Fiction
- Kenya
- Young Adult Fiction | War & Military
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | Africa
- Spy stories
- Brothers--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories
- Kenya--Fiction
- Child soldiers--Fiction
- Refugees--Fiction
- Islamic fundamentalism--Fiction
- Terrorism
- Spies
- Young Adult Fiction
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Young Adults Selection, 2019
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