Book
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
- Published
- 2001
- Genre
- Fiction
- Pages
- 72
- Words
- 2672
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.2
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile code
- NP — non-prose
- Suggested reading age
- ages 6–11
Through a sequence of poems and pictures, sisters Amber and Essie support one another through hunger, loneliness, their mother's long work hours, and the absence of their father, who is in jail.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780060294601
- ISBN-10
- 0060294604
Tags
ALSC NotablesEmotions-LonelinessFamily Life-FathersFamily Life-SistersNonfictionPeople-ChildrenPoetrySocial Issues-Poverty