Where the Watermelons Grow
by Cindy Baldwin
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2018
Word Count 51,767
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1020L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 197589, 8.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Droughts
- Schizophrenia--Fiction
- Family problems--Fiction
- Mental illness--Fiction
- North Carolina
- Schizophrenia
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Droughts--Fiction
- Farm life--North Carolina--Fiction
- Family problems
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Parents
- Mental illness
- Farm life
- North Carolina--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | Farm Life & Ranch Life
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Depression & Mental Illness
- Family crises
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