Interest Level
Grades 6 - 8
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.9
Lexile Measure®: 660L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: NR
Theme/Subject
- Character and Values
- Culture and Diversity
- Friends and Friendship
- Sports
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About This Book
While coping with her mother's depression, the bombing in Nairobi, and her father's restlessness, twelve-year-old Dakar wonders if she is the only one who worries about her family.About the Authors or Illustrators
Janet Kurtx writes books and magazine articles and a weekly column about children's books. She has sold nine children's books in four year, including Fire on the Mountain, are retelling of an Ethiopian folktale.
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