The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Adventure
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Area
- South Asian
Year Published 2003
Word Count 107,052
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 77450
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
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