Interest Level
Grades 8 - 12
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 7.8
Lexile Measure®: 490L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: NR
Genre
- General Fiction
- Multicultural
- Young Adult
Theme/Subject
- Culture and Diversity
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Friends and Friendship
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
- School Life
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Swept away by the illusions of romance, Talley Barbour, a black high school student, falls for a devastatingly handsome white classmate.About the Authors or Illustrators
Virginia Hamilton received the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the most prestigious international award in children's literature. She also won the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was the first children's author to receive a MacArthur Foundation "a genius" grant in 1995.
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