| Caught in the ACT Contributor(s): Nixon, Joan Lowery (Author) |
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ISBN: 0440226783 ISBN-13: 9780440226789 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Series: Orphan Train Adventures |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 4.28" W x 6.84" (0.18 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Missouri |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 604 Reading Level: 5.0 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the saga of the Kelly children continues, Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him, they are mainly interested in having cheap labor. |