Purple Heart
by Patricia McCormick
When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in a Green Zone hospital, an image emerges from... read more
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Disability
Year Published 2009
Word Count 40,645
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 760L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 131874, 6 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Brain damage--Fiction
- Soldiers
- Street children--Fiction
- Memory--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Fiction
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Juvenile fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Hospitals--Fiction
- Iraq War, 2003-
- Hospitals
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | Middle East
- Brain damage
- Soldiers--Fiction
- Memory
- Street children
- Young Adult Fiction
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Patricia McCormick
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 3
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Book Readings 1
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Selection, 2010
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