Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
by Jerry Spinelli
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 1998
Word Count 32,432
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 980L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 20119
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Authors, American
- Italian Americans--Biography
- 20th century
- Spinelli, Jerry
- Norristown (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature
- Social life and customs
- Norristown (Pa.)
- Spinelli, Jerry--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature
- Italian Americans
- Norristown
- Spinelli, Jerry--Childhood and youth
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Pennsylvania
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Literary
- Childhood and youth
- Italian Americans--Pennsylvania--Norristown--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Lists With This Book
- Autobiographies of Book Creators
- Journeys, Grade 6
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