Bluest Eye

Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author), Woodson, Jacqueline (Introduction by)

ISBN: 9780307278449

Publisher: Vintage

Binding Types:

Paperback

$19.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$31.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$30.75 (100+ copies: $30.00)

List/retail price:

$19.00

Pub Date: May 8, 2007

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2007276261

Lexile Code: 0920

Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.60" H x 7.90" L x 5.10" W ( 0.55 lbs) 224 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Literary | African American and Black | General | Coming of Age

Series: Vintage International

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000036938 ( Bluest Eye)

Reading level: 5.20

Interest level: UG

Point value: 8.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Review Quotes: A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!

"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." --The New York Times

"A profoundly successful work of fiction. . . . Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience." --The Detroit Free Press

"This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl's universe." --Newsweek

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