The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1990
Word Count 63,105
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 880L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 57010
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
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