Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.1
Lexile Measure®: 1100L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Theme/Subject
- African American
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About This Book
Benjamin Banneker was born free when most blacks in this country were still enslaved. But it troubled him that not all blacks were free. An accomplished astronomer and mathematician, he decided to take a stand against slavery by writing to then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. This is the story of their extraordinary correspondence.About the Authors or Illustrators
Get to know New York Times bestselling children's author Andrea Davis Pinkney, who is famous for her biographies of extraordinary African Americans.
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