Jakarta Missing
by Jane Kurtz
Dakar is scared. When her family left East Africa to spend a year or two in Cottonwood,... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- African
Year Published 2001
Word Count 52,012
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 660L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 48675, 8.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Physical Education
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- North Dakota
- Moving, Household--Fiction
- Women athletes--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Africa
- Schools
- North Dakota--Fiction
- Family life
- Sisters
- Sisters--Fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Courage--Fiction
- Homesickness--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | New Experience
- Family life--North Dakota--Fiction
- Women athletes
- Moving, Household
- Courage
- Homesickness
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