Interest Level
Grades 4 - 7
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.3
Lexile Measure®: 710L
DRA: 40
Guided Reading: R
Genre
- General Fiction
Theme/Subject
- African American History
- Extended Families
- Travel and Vacations
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Caldecott-winner Faith Ringgold uses a time-travel story to trace an aspect of African American history in the early 1900s. Lonnie, an orphaned African American boy with red hair and green eyes follows a magical bird named Love Bird back in time to Paris during World War I, where he meets his own grandparents.About the Authors or Illustrators
Faith Ringgold was born in 1930, in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City. She went to City College in New York to study art and earned her degree from the School of Education. She followed the family tradition of teaching, but never stopped creating her own art or telling stories. Today she is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego and lives in Englewood, New Jersey. She also has art studios in New York. She is married and has two daughters and three granddaughters.
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