The Street
by Petry, Ann
Growing UpBlack PeopleParents & Parental FiguresDaughters, Sons, & Nonbinary Offspring12Poverty & Social EqualityViolencePrejudice & Discrimination
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AR Book Level
6.2
AR Points
19
Word Count
119,799
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
71299 EN
About this book
This book tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.