City of Orphans
by Avi and Greg Ruth
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Mystery
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2011
Word Count 60,087
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 570L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 148119, 8 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
- Immigrants
- Gangs--Fiction
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898--Fiction
- New York
- New York (State)
- Mystery and detective stories
- 1865-1898
- Homeless persons--Fiction
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Homeless girls
- Family life
- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
- Homeless persons
- Immigrants--Fiction
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Families
- New York (N.Y.)
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Gangs
- Young Adult Fiction
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