A Good Kind of Trouble
by Lisa Moore Ramée
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- Grade
- 3-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2019
Word Count 62,831
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 501309, 9 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Identity (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
- Sisters--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Sisters--Juvenile fiction
- Identity--Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education
- Black lives matter movement--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Black lives matter movement--Juvenile fiction
- Lists With This Book
- School Stories: Selected K-12 Literature
- #OwnVoices for 4-8
- Enough is Enough
- Inequity, Equality, and Organizing
- This List is Anti-Racist
- Race, Police And Justice
- Anti-Racist Reading List
- Activism and Protest
- Black Experiences
- Conversations through Literacy
- Exploring and Challenging Racism PK-8
- Preventing Bias-Based Bullying Elem.
- Preventing Bias-Based Bullying Secondary
- Black Characters and Social Themes
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Awards & Distinctions 7

BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards, 2021-2025
First Novelist Winner, 2021

Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2025
Honor, 2020

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2020

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2019
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