# Day of Tears

**Author:** Julius Lester
**Grade range:** Grades 7–12
**First published:** 2005
**Page count:** 200
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/day-of-tears
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and space. They come to discover that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker.

## Where this book is assigned

### Coretta Scott King Author Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2006 CSK Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)

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