Saving the World
by Julia Alvarez
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (Latin America)
Year Published 2006
Word Count 132,782
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 920L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 108887, 22.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Married women
- Psychological fiction
- Balmis, Francisco Xavier de--Fiction
- Balmis, Francisco Xavier de
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Family relationships--Fiction
- Fiction | Literary
- Smallpox
- AIDS (Disease)
- Middle aged women--Fiction
- Married women--Fiction
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Fiction
- Family relationships
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Smallpox--Fiction
- ExpedicioÌn MariÌtima de la Vacuna (1803-1810)--Fiction
- Patients
- Middle aged women
- Vaccination--Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Vaccination
Our Original Resources 4
Audio Name Pronunciation with Julia Alvarez
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Submit Qualitative Text Complexity Rubric
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About the Author 3
Author Interviews 4
Interview with Julia Alvarez
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Interview with Julia Alvarez
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Interview with Julia Alvarez
Created by The Atlantic
Interview with Julia Alvarez
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 3
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Discussion Questions from Reading Group Guides
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Book Readings 1
Audiobook Excerpt narrated by Blanca Camacho
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