ECHO

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

ECHO

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Book Information

Publication Date: February 24, 2015


Reading Level: Lexile Measure 680L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level Y


Interest Level: Grades 3-12


Major Awards: 2016 Newbery Award * Audie Award, Middle Grade, 2016


Number of Pages: 592 pages


Approximate Word Count: 180,560 words -- The average reader will spend 12 hours and 2 minutes reading Echo at 250 words per minute.*


Audible Book Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins


Book Themes: War, Prejudice, Identity, Believing in Dreams


Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Middle Grade


Setting: Four Settings - Magical Forest; Each part is set in a new location: Friedrich in 1933-1945 Germany, Mike during the Great Depression (1930's) Pennsylvania, and Ivy in 1942 California.


Important Quote: Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people.


First Line: Otto looked up from the book.


Point of View: Third Person Point of View from Varying Perspectives


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Vocabulary List

abide
acquainted
advantageous
affiliated
affliction
alternating
amenable
anticipated
apparent
appraising
aptitude
ardent
arpeggios
at my bidding
banter
barrio
benefactor
benevolent
besieged
boycotts
bravado
bristle
buoyant
camaraderie
censoring
chenille
clambered
clamor
coincidence
colluding
commendation concerto
concessions
confounded
congregated
conjecture
consign
consoled
conspicuous
consumption
convene
corrugated
countenance
criticize
dank
deliberate
despondent
destination
destitute
devastated
dignitaries
dilapidated
disparage
dispensation
dissenters
dissonant
distinctive
drudgery
drudgery
dumbfounde
dwindled
earnest
eclipsed
enclave
endorse
ethereal
euphoric
evidence

exemplary
expectation
faltered
famished
fanatic
fanfare
febrile
filigree
fleeting
forgo
fortitude
fortuitous
fretted
frivolous
furrow
furtive
giddy
goad
gumption
halfhearted
hesitant
hovel
hypnotic
idled
imperceptible
implored
impose
impromptu
improvising
indenture
indignant
indulge
infused
inhabited
insinuations
interminable
intricate
intrigued
intuition
ironclad
itinerant
jovial
laden
languish
lilting
lingering
looming
manhandled
manicured
manipulation
measly
melancholy
metronome
novelty
obliged
oblivious
obstacles
optimistic
orientation
pallid
palpable
pensive
perils
persistent
pervaded
philanthropy
philharmonic

pillage
pique
precipices
preposterous
prodigy
progeny
prominent
prospect
providence
prudent
quelled
ramshackle
ranted
reassured
redundant
relieved
relinquished
reluctantly
rendition
repertoire
replica
replicate
resumed
reveling
revered
reverie
riveted
rosining
sanctioned
savoring
sentimental
serenading
snidely
solace
solemn
spectacle
speculation
spontaneous
squandering
staccato
stamina
stigma
stipulation
stragglers
sublime
subsequent
succumbed
surveying
swastika
sympathizer
testifying
threadbare
tolerated
traipsed
transgressio
tribulations
unconscionable
unfettered
upheaval
vagabond
vantage
venue
vulgar
vulnerable
waif
wavered

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