Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston
by Mary E. Lyons
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- Grade
- 3-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Fairy Tales / Folklore
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1990
Word Count 26,127
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1040L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 6043, 4 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- Juvenile literature
- Intellectual life
- Folklorists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African Americans--Folklore
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Authors, American
- Harlem Renaissance--Juvenile literature
- Hurston, Zora Neale--Juvenile literature
- African American authors--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African Americans
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Folklorists
- United States
- Biography
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Folklore
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Literary
- African Americans--Biography
- African American authors
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Awards & Distinctions 2
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1991
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
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