Bird
by Crystal Chan
Twelve-year-old Jewel is a mixed-race (Black Jamaican/Mexican American/white) girl... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Multiracial / Mixed Race
- Disability
Year Published 2014
Word Count 62,089
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 165634, 9 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Family problems--Fiction
- Racially mixed people
- Dysfunctional families
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Grief--Fiction
- Superstition
- Grief
- Selective mutism--Fiction
- Racially-mixed people
- Family problems
- Superstition--Fiction
- Racially-mixed people--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Selective mutism
- Iowa
- Iowa--Fiction
- Lists With This Book
- Books From All 50 States - Iowa
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