Interest Level
Grades 6 - 8
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 7.8
Lexile Measure®: 1060L
DRA: 70
Guided Reading: Z
Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Homelessness and Poverty
- Parents
- African American
- Honesty
- Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking
- Friends and Friendship
Sensitivity
- Objectionable Language
- Violence
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About This Book
Raspberry Hill vowed never to end up living on the streets again. To her, money equals security. But when a troubled neighborhood teenager attacks her mother, Raspberry takes some desperate and disturbing steps.
Praise for Begging for Change
About the Authors or Illustrators
Sharon G. Flake exploded onto the literary scene with her novel The Skin I'm In, in 1998, and was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Since then she has become a multiple Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award winner and has been hailed as the voice of middle-grade youth and a Rising Star by The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.
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