Preview this TitleMalcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
by Walter Dean Myers
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Muslim
- African American
Year Published 1993
Word Count 35,596
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1050L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 10129, 6 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Black Muslims
- Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African Americans
- Black Muslims--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Biography
- X, Malcolm
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- African Americans--Biography
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965--Juvenile literature
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Lists With This Book
- Civil Rights Movement
- America250 9-12
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Awards & Distinctions 2
Phoenix Award, 1986-2026
Children's Honor, 2013
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1994
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