Backwater
by Joan Bauer
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 1999
Word Count 40,684
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 810L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 32219, 6 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- Subject Headings
- Birds
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
- Survival
- Aunts--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Hermits
- Lawyers
- Aunts
- Survival--Fiction
- Family life
- Birds--Fiction
- Genealogy
- Family life--Fiction
- Lawyers--Fiction
- Genealogy--Fiction
- Hermits--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age
- Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)--Fiction
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Joan Bauer
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Interview with Joan Bauer
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On writing as the intersection of adversity and humor with Joan Bauer
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Interview with Joan Bauer
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Interview with Joan Bauer
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On being a punk with Joan Bauer
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On the value of work with Joan Bauer
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On being real with Joan Bauer
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Fiction can be true to life with Joan Bauer
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On her life now with Joan Bauer
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