Book
Somewhere in the Darkness
by Walter Dean Myers
- Published
- 1992
- Genre
- Fiction
- Words
- 42055
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.4
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 640L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–18
Fourteen-year-old Jimmy is taken from New York by his long-absent father Crab, an escaped prisoner who insists he is innocent, on a journey that forces Jimmy to confront family history, trust, and what he wants from his father.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780590424127
Tags
Adventure-EscapeAward Winners-Boston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsAward Winners-Coretta Scott King Award/HonorsAward Winners-Newbery HonorPeople-Daughters, Sons, & Nonbinary OffspringPeople-Parents & Parental FiguresPlaces-PrisonsRecommended Reading-YALSA Popular Paperbacks