Whistling in the Dark
by Shirley Hughes
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
Year Published 2017
Word Count 40,399
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 890L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 191931, 6 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Female friendship
- Military deserters--Fiction
- Military deserters--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Historical--Military & Wars
- Teenage girls
- War stories
- Liverpool (England)--20th century--Juvenile fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Action & Adventure--Survival Stories
- Teenage girls--Friends and associates--Fiction
- Children
- World War, 1939-1945--England--Liverpool--Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--England--Liverpool--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure | Survival Stories
- England--Liverpool
- Friendship--Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945--England--Liverpool--Fiction
- Teenage girls--England--Liverpool--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars
- JUVENILE FICTION--Social Themes--Emigration & Immigration
- Female friendship--England--Liverpool--Juvenile fiction
- Military deserters
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Middle Selection, 2018
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