Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Disability
Year Published 1937
Word Count 29,572
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 630L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 8665
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Psychological fiction
- Male friendship
- Mentally handicapped
- Ranch life
- Cowboys
- California
- Salinas River Valley
- Salinas River Valley (Calif.)--Fiction
- Men
- Male friendship--Fiction
- Fiction | Classics
- People with mental disabilities--Fiction
- Cowboys--Fiction
- Salinas River Valley (Calif.)
- Western stories
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Ranch life--Fiction
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