Drita, My Homegirl
by Jenny Lombard
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
Year Published 2006
Word Count 25,835
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 630L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 105850, 4 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Refugees
- Schools
- Family life
- Emigration and immigration
- Schools--Fiction
- Albanian Americans--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Friendship--Fiction
- New York
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction
- New York (N.Y.)
- Refugees--Fiction
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction
- New York (State)
- Friendship
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
- Albanian Americans
- Lists With This Book
- African American Heritage and Culture
- Language Learning
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