| The Kite Runner Reprint Edition Contributor(s): Hosseini, Khaled |
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ISBN: 1594480001 ISBN-13: 9781594480003 Publisher: Penguin Group USA OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Privileged young narrator Amir comes of age during the last peaceful days of the monarchy in Afghanistan, then must endure revolution, invasion and a country's long struggle to triumph over violent forces. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 813/.6 |
| LCCN: bl2004107699 |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Book type: Fiction |
| Physical Information: 8.00" H x 5.00" W x 1.00" (0.70 lbs) 371 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 77450 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Scholastic Reading Counts Info |
| Quiz #: Q36916 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Grades 9-12 Point Value: 23.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The timely and critically acclaimed debut novel that's becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon... |
Contributor Bio(s): iv> Khaled Hosseini one of most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with more than ten million copies sold in the United States of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, and more than thirty-eight million copies sold worldwide in more than seventy countries. His third novel, And the Mountains Echoed, will be published May 21, 2013. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He lives in northern California. To learn more about his foundation, please visit www.khaledhosseini.org. |