The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
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- 9-12
Year Published 1951
Word Count 73,404
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 790L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 5978, 11 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- New York (State)--New York
- Fiction | Classics
- FICTION / Classics
- Teenage boys
- Runaway teenagers
- Runaway teenagers--Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Teenage boys--Fiction
- Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character)--Fiction
- Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious character)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Bildungsromans
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