Taking Cover: One Girl's Story of Growing Up During the Iranian Revolution
by Nioucha Homayoonfar
This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- Middle Eastern
Year Published 2019
Word Count 43,105
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 199855
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Immigrants--Iran--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Middle East
- Iran--Political and social views--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Middle East
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Juvenile literature
- Political and social views
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women
- Iran--Political and social views
- Iran--History--Revolution, 1979
- Immigrants--Iran--Biography
- Culture shock
- Children's Books/All Ages
- Iran
- Revolution (Iran : 1979)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Culture shock--Juvenile literature
- Homayoonfar, Nioucha
- Girls--Iran
- Homayoonfar, Nioucha--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
- Iran--History
- Culture conflict
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