How to Save a Life
by Sara Zarr
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2011
Word Count 86,114
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 710L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 147220, 12 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Colorado
- Mothers and daughters
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Pregnancy
- Grief--Fiction
- Pregnancy--Fiction
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Girls & Women
- Grief
- Adoption--Fiction
- Pregnancy
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Adoption
- Family life
- Family life--Colorado--Fiction
- Denver (Colo.)--Fiction
- Adoption
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Death, Grief, Bereavement
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction
- Denver (Colo.)
- Interpersonal relations
- Lists With This Book
- Books From All 50 States - Colorado
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Book Readings 1
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Awards & Distinctions 6
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Young Adult Selection, 2012
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2023
Finalist, 2012
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2024
Top 10 Selection, 2012
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Fiction Selection, 2011
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