Purple Climbing Days
Purple Climbing Days
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Purple Climbing Days

Written by Patricia Reilly Giff
Part of the The Kids of the Polk Street School Book Series
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$4.99
$4.74
6 - 9
Reading age
80
Page count
74
Words per page
490L
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Apr 1, 1985
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What’s worse than a blue Monday? For Richard “Beast” Best, it’s a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots.Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. Just looking at it hanging down from the gym ceiling makes him dizzyBeast is afraid and hopes his friends won’t find out. But Mrs. Miller, the meanest substitute teacher in the whole school, finds out his secret and tells him to meet her in the gym after school. Miller the Killer. What will she do to him?

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780440473091
    Publication Date
    April 1, 1985
    Publisher
    Yearling
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 1985
    Page Count
    80
    Words Per Page
    74
    Audience
    Juvenile Reader
    Reading Age
    6 - 9 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2006273268
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    12094046
    Lexile® Level
    490L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~M
    ATOS® Book Level
    2.4
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    1
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    698
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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