Parrots Over Puerto Rico
by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
For millions of years, hundreds of thousands of beautiful green and blue Puerto Rican... read more
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2013
Word Count 2,597
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 163052
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rican parrot
- Endangered species--Puerto Rico--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Birds
- Puerto Rican parrot--Conservation--Juvenile literature
- Natural history
- Natural history--Puerto Rico--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Parrots
- Conservation
- Environmental conditions
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- Puerto Rican parrot--Juvenile literature
- Puerto Rico--Environmental conditions--Juvenile literature
- Endangered species
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Awards & Distinctions 11

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2021
Honor, 2014

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Winner, 2014

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2020
Honor, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Nonfiction Selection, 2014

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

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Commended, 2014

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Selection, 2013

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2013
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