Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martinez-Neal • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
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- PK-2
- Genre
- Picture Book
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (Latin America)
Year Published 2018
Word Count 341
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 490L
- ATOS Reading Level: 2.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 195946, 0.5 AR Points
- Phonics & Phonolgical Awareness
- Any Vowel Sounds
- Long E
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- JUVENILE FICTION--People & Places--Caribbean & Latin America
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- JUVENILE FICTION--Social Themes--Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
- Names, Personal--Fiction
- Names, Personal
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Families--Juvenile fiction
- Names, Personal--Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Hispanic Americans
- Families
- Families--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION--Family--Multigenerational
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Self-Identity Selection, 2019
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