Year Published 2005

Word Count 2,185

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
• ATOS Reading Level: 6.3

• AR Quiz Numbers
• Quiz 104613, 0.5 AR Points

• Curricular Area
• English Language Arts
• History
• Social Studies

• Subject Headings
• Murder victims--Juvenile poetry
• Trials (Murder)
• Crimes against
• Murder victims
• African American teenage boys
• Young Adult Nonfiction | Poetry
• Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African American
• Hate crimes
• African Americans--Crimes against--Juvenile poetry
• Till, Emmett
• Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
• Mississippi
• African Americans
• Lynching
• African American teenage boys--Juvenile poetry
• Trials (Murder)--Juvenile poetry
• Mississippi--Juvenile poetry
• Children's poetry, American
• Hate crimes--Juvenile poetry
• Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Juvenile poetry
• American poetry
• Lynching--Juvenile poetry

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