Handbook for Boys: A Novel
by Walter Dean Myers
In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad... read more
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2003
Word Count 36,278
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 740L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 59209, 5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Conduct of life--Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
- Conduct of life
- Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men
- African Americans--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- African Americans
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Barbershops--Fiction
- Barbershops
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