I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Year Published 1969

Word Count 78,384

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 1010L
• ATOS Reading Level: 6.7

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 8660

• Curricular Area
• English Language Arts
• Health

• Subject Headings
• Entertainers--United States--Biography
• Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
• Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
• Authors, American
• 20th century
• Autobiographies
• Angelou, Maya--Childhood and youth
• African American families
• Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Arkansas
• African American authors--Biography
• Social life and customs
• Entertainers
• Arkansas--Social life and customs
• Angelou, Maya
• Angelou, Maya--Homes and haunts--Arkansas
• Homes and haunts
• Intellectual life
• African American families--Arkansas
• United States
• Arkansas--Intellectual life--20th century
• Authors, American--20th century--Biography
• Childhood and youth
• Arkansas
• Biography / Autobiography
• Biography & Autobiography | Women
• African American authors

• Lists With This Book
• ELA Text Exemplars, 9-10
• CCS-Novels Available in the English 6-12
• SLA Curriculum Materials Grade 10
• Challenged Young Adult Books
• HCS High School Book Club
• Black History Secondary
• Advanced Placement English Summer Sugges
• Banned and Challenged Books of the 2010s