A Lesson Before Dying

ISBN-10: 0375702709
ISBN-13: 9780375702709
Author: Gaines, Ernest
Interest Level: 9-A
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: September 1997

Copyright: 1993

Page Count: 272

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Interest Level

Grades 9-A

Reading Level

Guided Reading: Z+
Lexile: 750L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 11.0

BISAC Subjects

African American men; Fiction

African American men; Fiction

African American men; Fiction

Description
Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man