Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green • Related Edition: Spanish-Language
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2017
Word Count 62,868
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 191868, 10 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental Illness
- Missing persons--Juvenile fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Juvenile fiction
- Anxiety disorders
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friends
- Teenage girls
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming of Age
- Friendship in adolescence
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Mental Illness
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder--Fiction
- Missing persons--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Missing persons
- Friendship--Fiction
- Anxiety disorders--Juvenile fiction
- Friendship
- Young Adult Fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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Awards & Distinctions 7
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