AR Book Level
5.7
AR Points
10
Word Count
64,101
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
76098 EN
About this book
Young Lonigan is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy, following sixteen-year-old William "Studs" Lonigan, an Irish-American teenager, through five months of his life in Chicago in 1916. The book depicts Studs's relationships with his swaggering friends, his narrow-minded family, and the influence of his Catholic education as he navigates adolescence. This naturalistic portrait captures the pressures and environment that shape a young man coming of age in early twentieth-century America.
