Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- Middle Eastern
Year Published 2003
Word Count 51,377
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1030L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 76686
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Iranian American women--Biography
- Iranian Americans
- Iranian Americans--Biography
- Immigrants
- Dumas, Firoozeh--Family
- Social life and customs
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- 1971-
- Ābādān (Iran)--Biography
- United States
- Immigrants--United States--Biography
- Iranian American women
- Whittier (Calif.)
- Whittier (Calif.)--Biography
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-
- Dumas, Firoozeh
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- HCS High School Book Club
- SpringBoard, Grade 7, Unit 1
- SWANACA
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