Almost Flying
by Jake Maia Arlow
In this Stonewall Honor book, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Jewish
- LGBTQ+
Year Published 2021
Word Count 74,401
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 760L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 511781, 11 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Amusement parks--Fiction
- Female friendship
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Fiction
- Lesbians--Fiction
- Middle school students--Fiction
- Lesbians--Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students
- Lesbians
- Middle school students--Juvenile fiction
- Female friendship--Juvenile fiction
- Amusement parks
- Vacations
- Infatuation
- Infatuation--Juvenile fiction
- Infatuation--Fiction
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / LGBT
- Amusement parks--Juvenile fiction
- Female friendship--Fiction
- Vacations--Fiction
- Vacations--Juvenile fiction
- Lists With This Book
- LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools Elementary
- Books that Celebrate Jewish Life
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Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2021
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