Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
by Phillip Hoose
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2018
Word Count 37,696
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1110L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 199547, 7 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Physical Education
- Subject Headings
- Basketball players--United States--Biography
- Robertson, Oscar, 1938-
- Basketball players
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History | United States - State & Local
- Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African American
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball
- History
- Robertson, Oscar
- United States
- Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team)--History
- Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team)
- Lists With This Book
- Multicultural Biography
- Books From All 50 States - Indiana
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Sports Selection, 2019
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Commended, 2019
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History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2019
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Selection, 2019
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