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A Long Walk to Water
Ages 10–12 · 2010
Bookroo's summary
In a small New Hampshire town, a fourteen-year-old girl chronicles her final year on the family farm. Her journal captures the everyday rhythms of rural life, her father's remarriage, and the profound loss of her best friend. As she navigates these changes, her entries offer a poignant glimpse into her world, raising questions about resilience and the passage of time. What will this year bring, and how will she cope with the shifting landscape of her life?
From the publisher
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father’s remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
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At a glance
- Format
- Pages
- 144
- Words
- 28,763
- Reading age
- 9–12
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Lexile
- ~999L
Themes & topics
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The fine print
Book details
Reading levels
- ATOS
- 6.7
- F&P level
- ~X
- AR points
- 5
- AR interest level
- MG
- AR quiz
- 221
Publication
- Published
- October 31, 1990
- First published
- September 1, 1979
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School
Edition
- Language
- English
- Type
- Chapter Book
Identifiers
- ISBN
- 9780153052231
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