The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
- Women / Girls
Year Published 1982
Word Count 66,556
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 670L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 7107, 9 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Fiction | Classics
- African American women--Fiction
- Fiction | Literary
- Abused wives--Fiction
- Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
- African American women
- Fiction | Sagas
- Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction
- Southern States--Fiction
- Fiction | Media Tie-In | General
- Domestic fiction
- Abused wives
- Sisters
- Adult child sexual abuse victims
- Southern States
- Sisters--Fiction
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