My Year in the Middle
by Lila Quintero Weaver
In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lu’s talent for running... read more
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- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (US / Canada)
- Immigrant / Refugee
Year Published 2018
Word Count 51,033
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 197988, 7 AR Points
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- English Language Arts
- History
- Physical Education
- Spanish
- Subject Headings
- Track and field athletes
- Racism--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--People & Places--United States--Hispanic & Latino
- Argentines--United States--Juvenile fiction
- Schools
- Immigrant children
- Segregation in education
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- Alabama--Juvenile fiction
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- Alabama
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- Argentines
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- Middle schools
- Civil rights movements
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Middle schools--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Track & Field
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen seventies
- Track and field athletes--Juvenile fiction
- Track and field athletes--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Sports & Recreation--Track & Field
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--United States--20th Century
- Segregation in education--United States--Fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Racism--Fiction
- United States
- Civil rights movements--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship--Fiction
- African Americans--Civil rights
- Racism
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Friendship
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--Fiction
- Segregation in education--United States--Juvenile fiction
- Civil rights movements--History--20th century--Fiction
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