Take me there

Resource Information

The work Take me there represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Take me there

Statement of responsibility

Carolee Dean

Creator

• trueDean, Carolee

Subject

• trueCalifornia
• Crime -- Juvenile fiction
• trueDeath row prisoners
• Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
• Emotional problems -- Fiction
• Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFamily problems
• Family problems -- Fiction
• Fugitives from justice -- Fiction
• Fugitives from justice -- Juvenile fiction
• trueJuvenile delinquents (Boys)
• Literacy -- Fiction
• Literacy -- Juvenile fiction
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• trueTeenage boys
• trueTeenage fugitives
• trueTexas
• Texas -- Fiction
• Texas -- Juvenile fiction
• trueMystery and detective stories
• trueRich teenage girls
• trueSeventeen-year-old boys

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueIntricately plotted

Award

• YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2015.
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, 2012

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 013-017
• HL760L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

UG

LC call number

PZ7.D3435

LC item number

Tak 2010

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 9
• 12

Reading level

4.8

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent