Fresh Girl
by Jaira Placide
First-time novelist Jaira Placide draws on her Haitian heritage in this stirring... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- African (Global)
- Latino (Latin America)
Year Published 2002
Word Count 50,059
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 620L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 61385, 7 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Grandmothers--Fiction
- Haiti--Fiction
- Grandmothers
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
- Haitian Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Haiti
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Haitian Americans--Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Haitian Americans
- Lists With This Book
- Immigration, 6-12
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 2
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Awards & Distinctions 2
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Fiction Winner, 2003
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
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