I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Contributor(s): Angelou, Maya (Author), Winfrey, Oprah (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780345514400

Publisher: Ballantine Books

$9.99

Pub Date: April 21, 2009

Dewey: B

Lexile Code: 0860

Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 6.90" L x 4.10" W ( 0.35 lbs) 304 pages

BISAC Categories:

Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures | African American & Black | Women | Memoirs

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000008660 ( I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)

Reading level: 6.70

Interest level: UG

Point value: 13.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in racially charged Arkansas in the 1930s brings to vivid life a world which most Americans had no idea existed.

Review Quotes: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin

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