Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2017
Word Count 62,868
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 191868
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental Illness
- Missing persons--Juvenile fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Juvenile fiction
- Anxiety disorders
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friends
- Teenage girls
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming of Age
- Friendship in adolescence
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Mental Illness
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Fiction
- Missing persons--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Missing persons
- Friendship--Fiction
- Anxiety disorders--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship
- Young Adult Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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- Choice Texts English 1
- Diverse Lit Kits, 9-12
- Young Adult Fiction
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About the Author 3
Author Interviews 14
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Book Readings 3
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Awards & Distinctions 3
Indies Choice Book Awards, 2009-2019
Honor, 2018
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Young Adults Selection, 2017
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2017
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