Upstate
by Kalisha Buckhanon
"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?"
So... read more
So... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2005
Word Count 65,800
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 950L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 102565, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- African American women--Fiction
- Fathers
- African American women
- Epistolary fiction
- Fathers--Death--Fiction
- Young adults--Fiction
- New York (State)--Fiction
- Fiction | General
- Young adults
- Death
- Love stories
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction
- African American prisoners--Fiction
- New York (State)
- Bildungsromans
- African American prisoners
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Book Readings 1
Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Chad Boseman
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Awards & Distinctions 1
Alex Awards, 1998-2024
Winner, 2006
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