A Diamond in the Desert
by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Asian American
Year Published 2012
Word Count 28,651
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 810L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 150059, 4 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction
- Gila River Relocation Center--Fiction
- Japanese Americans
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball
- Baseball
- Guilt
- Gila River Relocation Center
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction
- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Baseball--Fiction
- Gila River Relocation Center--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Asian American
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Guilt--Fiction
- Baseball stories
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