The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African
Year Published 2018
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 800L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Refugees
- Refugees
- Civil War, 1994
- Social Science | Refugees
- Wamariya, Clemantine
- Refugees--Biography
- History | Africa | East
- Autobiographies
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- History
- History | Africa
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Rwanda
- Lists With This Book
- Black History
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