Secrets in the Fire
by Henning Mankell
Real-life land mine victim Sofia Alface is the inspiration for Mankell's stunning... read more
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Disability
Year Published 2003
Word Count 35,401
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: Currently Not Available
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 73377, 5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Amputees
- Children
- Land mine victims--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Africa
- Mozambique--History--Independence and Civil War, 1976-1994--Children--Juvenile fiction
- Mozambique
- Enfants et guerre--Mozambique--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Land mine victims--Mozambique--Juvenile fiction
- Girl amputees--Fiction
- Amputees--Mozambique--Juvenile fiction
- Girls with disabilities--Fiction
- Victimes de mines antipersonnel--Mozambique--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
- Postcolonialism--Fiction
- Children and war
- Land mine victims
- Mozambique--Histoire--1975-1994--Enfants--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Struksrud, Anne Connie
- Survival skills--Fiction
- Land mines--Fiction
- Self-fulfillment in girls--Fiction
- Courage in girls--Fiction
- Children and war--Mozambique--Juvenile fiction
- AmputeÌs--Mozambique--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Swedish fiction--21st century--Translations into English
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