Slake's Limbo
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Chapter Book · Ages 9–12 · 1974 · Est. 2.5 hour read

Slake's Limbo

Written by Felice Holman

Bullied and alone, a boy escapes into the subway tunnels and stays for months.

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117 pages· 24,200 words· Est. 2.5 hour read· ~980L· AR 6.4 · 4 AR pts
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Bookroo's summary

Thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake is a misfit with no friends and nowhere he feels safe. Harassed to the breaking point, he flees into the New York City subway and makes a hidden home in a hollow in the tunnel wall. For one hundred and twenty-one days he survives underground, until the world above finds a way to reach him.

From the publisher

This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit’s attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world. Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground – into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
117
Words
24,200
Reading age
9–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
~980L
AR book level
6.4
AR points
4
AR quiz
5335
Themes & topics
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Book details

Reading levels
F&P level
~W
Scholastic level
Y
AR interest level
UG
Publication
Published
May 31, 1986
First published
January 1, 1974
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780689710667
LCCN
85026795
OCLC
12807594

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