Same Sun Here
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A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner’s son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Silas House is the nationally best-selling author of Eli the Good as well as the award-winning novels Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, and The Coal Tattoo. He is an associate professor at Berea College and lives in eastern Kentucky.
Neela Vaswani is the co-author (with Silas House) of the middle-grade novel Same Sun Here and the author of You Have Given Me a Country and Where the Long Grass Bends. Her work has received an American Book Gold Award, an O. Henry Prize, and a ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award. A teacher at Spalding University’s MFA in Writing program and founder of the Storylines Project with the New York Public Library, Neela Vaswani lives in New York City
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780763656843
- Publication Date
- January 1, 2012
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Page Count
- 297
- Words Per Page
- 193
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 10 - 16 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2010048223
- Lexile® Level
- 890L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~U
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.2
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 9
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 150734
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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