Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Sia (Artemesia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico three years ago and disappeared... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- Latino (US / Canada)
Year Published 2020
Word Count 72,731
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 570L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 508746, 10.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction
- Secrets--Fiction
- Secrecy--Juvenile fiction
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons--Juvenile fiction
- Racism--Fiction
- Racism--Juvenile fiction
- Alien abduction--Fiction
- Alien abduction--Juvenile fiction
- Mexican Americans--Fiction
- Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction
- Science fiction
- Mexican Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Mothers--Fiction
- Post-traumatic stress disorder--Fiction
- Mothers--Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons--Fiction
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