Kiss the Dust
by Elizabeth Laird
Tara's life is turned upside down almost overnight, as she must abandon her usual... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Middle Eastern
- Immigrant / Refugee
Year Published 1991
Word Count 64,812
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 850L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 7010, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Lists With This Book
- Arab World and Arab Americans
- Displacement Due to Violence and War
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