# A Family Apart

**Author:** Joan Lowery Nixon
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 1987
**Page count:** 162
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780440226765`
**ISBN-10:** `0440226767`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-family-apart
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- family, fiction
- family, juvenile literature
- foster home care
- brothers and sisters

## Where this book is recommended

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 1991-1992 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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