How High the Moon
by Karyn Parsons
To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
- Multiracial / Mixed Race
Year Published 2019
Word Count 59,592
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 680L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 501286, 9.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- History
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- 20th century
- Race relations--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Fiction | Law & Crime
- Racially mixed people--Fiction
- Families
- South Carolina--History--20th century--Fiction
- Racially mixed people
- Segregation--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Family life--South Carolina--Fiction
- Family life
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Segregation
- African Americans--Fiction
- South Carolina
- Race relations
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- African Americans
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 2
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Book Readings 2

Video Book Reading narrated by Karyn Parsons
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Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Karyn Parsons and Sisi Aisha Johnson
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Awards & Distinctions 1

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2021
Selection, 2019
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