Close to famous

Title:

Close to famous

Author:

Bauer, Joan, 1951-

ISBN:

9780670012824

Personal Author:

Bauer, Joan, 1951-

Publication Information:

New York :

Viking,

2011.

Physical Description:

250 pages ; 22 cm

Abstract:

Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.

Reading Level:

540 Lexile.

540L Lexile

Decoding demand: 89 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 81 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.6 6.0 143080.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.6 6 143080.

Subject Term:

Cupcakes -- Fiction.

Country life -- West Virginia -- Fiction.

Literacy -- Fiction.

Single-parent families -- Fiction.