Walden, or Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
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- Grade
- 7-12
Year Published 1854
Word Count 114,634
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1300L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 6000, 21 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Wilderness areas--Massachusetts--Walden Woods
- Authors, American
- Nature | Essays
- Walden Woods (Mass.)--Social life and customs
- Social life and customs
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Walden Woods
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography
- Walden Woods (Mass.)
- Homes and haunts
- Massachusetts
- Biography
- Thoreau, Henry David
- 19th century
- Walden Woods
- Literary Collections | American | General
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Solitude
- Natural history--Massachusetts--Walden Woods
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Natural history
- Wilderness areas
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