I Can Make This Promise
by Christine Day
Twelve-year-old Edie and her friends, Serenity and Amelia, are working on a film... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- American Indian
Year Published 2019
Word Count 42,472
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 610L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 505943, 6.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Secrets--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Adoption
- Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction
- Adoption--Fiction
- Family life--Washington (State)--Seattle--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Adoption
- Identity
- Identity--Fiction
- Seattle (Wash.)
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism
- Coast Salish Indians
- Washington (State)
- Seattle
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption
- Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Fiction
- Family life
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice
- Coast Salish Indians--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United S
- JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Native American
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
- Indians of North America
- Secrets
- Lists With This Book
- Native Stories
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Christine Day about I Can Make This Promise
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Christine Day
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 7
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Discussion Questions & Activities from Middle Grade at Heart
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Educator's Guide from Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Discussion Questions from Reading Group Choices
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Discussion Guide from HarperCollins
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Discussion Questions from Duke Univ. Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP)
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Book Readings 1

Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Kyla Garcia
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Vocabulary Lists 1

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Awards & Distinctions 7

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2022
Commended, 2020

Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2022
Honor, 2020

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2021
Selection, 2019

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