Clues to the Universe
by Christina Li
This stellar debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships,... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2021
Word Count 60,781
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 510524, 9.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Fathers--Death--Juvenile fiction
- Bullies--Fiction
- Bullying--Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students--Fiction
- Middle schools--Juvenile fiction
- Rockets (Aeronautics)--Models
- Schools
- Best friends
- Fatherless families--Fiction
- Father and child--Juvenile fiction
- Fatherless families--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Rockets (Aeronautics)--Models--Juvenile fiction
- Fathers--Death--Fiction
- Absentee fathers
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
- Father and child
- Grief--Fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Middle school students
- Middle schools--Fiction
- Middle school students--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Fiction
- Fathers--Death
- Grief--Juvenile fiction
- Best friends--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship
- Fatherless families
- Grief
- Bullying
- Absentee fathers--Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools
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Awards & Distinctions 1

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2022
Elementary Selection, 2021
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