Book
For Black Girls Like Me
- Published
- 2019
- Genre
- Fiction
- Pages
- 336
- Words
- 54823
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 3.5
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 500L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–13
Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adoptive family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled. The story contains slurs and themes of substance abuse and suicide.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780374308049
- ISBN-10
- 0374308047
Tags
ALSC NotablesEmotions-SadnessFamily Life-AdoptionFamily Life-Growing UpInterpersonal Relationships-FamilyPeople-African AmericanSocial Issues-Prejudice