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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Sisters -- Fiction
Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1960- -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction
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The
poisonwood
Bible
/ Barbara Kingsolver.
by
Kingsolver, Barbara
New York : HarperFlamingo, 1998.
Subjects
Sisters -- Fiction
Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1960- -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0060175400 :
0060930535 (pbk.) :
0965684784 (pbk.)
9780965684781(pbk.)
0571197639 (pbk. : Faber and Faber,1999)
0060512822 (pbk.) :
0060786507
9780061557079 (pbk. : Harper Perennial) :
Audience:
YA-Adult.
6.6.
Lexile value, 960 Metametrics.
Summary:
The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
Description:
546 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Accelerated Reader AR-ATOS 6.6 29.0 35204
Reading Counts RC 7.9 36.0 19368
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-546).
Genre:
Domestic fiction
Accelerated readers
World literature
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