Book
Keeping the Night Watch
- Published
- 2008
- Genre
- Poetry
- Pages
- 73
- Words
- 5929
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 3.6
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home, and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780805072020
- ISBN-10
- 0805072020
Tags
ALSC NotablesEmotions-AngerFamily Life-FathersHopePeople-African AmericanPoetryPoetry/Rhymes-Novels in VerseRealistic Fiction