# Master Harold...and the Boys

**Author:** Athol Fugard
**Grade range:** Grades 9–10
**Age range:** 14–15
**First published:** 1982
**Page count:** 61
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780192813947`
**ISBN-10:** `0192813943`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/master-harold-and-the-boys
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

"Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.

## Themes

- drama
- race relations
- social life and customs
- in literature

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 drama exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 drama exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)

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