What They Found: Love on 145th Street
by Walter Dean Myers
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2007
Word Count 54,070
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 830L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 117774, 8 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
- Love--Fiction
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Family life
- African Americans--Fiction
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Beauty shops--Fiction
- African Americans
- Love
- Families
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Short Stories
- Love stories
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Short stories
- Family life--Fiction
- Beauty shops--Juvenile fiction
- Beauty shops
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
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- Short Stories, 11-12
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