# Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

**Author:** Karen Blumenthal
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 258
**Genre:** Nonfiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780451471222`
**ISBN-10:** `0451471229`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/bonnie-and-clyde-the-making-of-a-legend
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way. Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance and tragic deaths.

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2020 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
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- **recommended** · 11th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2020 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2020 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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