The Pull of Gravity
by Gae Polisner
While Nick Gardner's family is falling apart, his best friend, Scooter, is dying... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2011
Word Count 44,619
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 690L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 144356, 6 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- Death--Fiction
- Death--Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and sons--Fiction
- Family problems--Fiction
- Fathers and sons
- Family problems--Juvenile fiction
- Grief--Fiction
- Steinbeck, John
- Rochester (N.Y.)
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Parents
- Grief
- Rochester (N.Y.)--Fiction
- Family problems
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Death
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Of mice and men
- Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction
- Grief--Juvenile fiction
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