Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 1937
Word Count 63,783
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 19797
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
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