Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.2
Lexile Measure®: 500L
DRA: 28
Guided Reading: M
Genre
- General Fiction
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Social Studies
- Character and Values
- Culture and Diversity
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
When nine-year-old Charlie sets out with Papa to buy supplies in Lawrence, they run into gun-packing proslavery men from Missouri. Papa must stay to help the free-state men protect the Kansas town. Charlie must be brave enough to drive the wagon home aloAbout the Authors or Illustrators
Deborah Hopkinson is the author of such award-winning children’s books as Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt; Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings; A Band of Angels, and for the "Dear America" series, Hear My Sorrow.
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