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Dark Dude

Title:

Dark Dude

Author:

Hijuelos, Oscar.

Personal Author:

Hijuelos, Oscar.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.

Language:

English

Reading Level:

980 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 12.0 128677.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.7 19 Quiz: 45139.

Subject Term:

Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction.

Coming of age -- Juvenile fiction.

Cuban Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Bildungsromans.