Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 5.9
Lexile Measure®: 670L
DRA: 50
Guided Reading: V
Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Mystery and Suspense
Theme/Subject
- African American History
- American History
- Civil War Period and Reconstruction
- American Civil War
- Slavery, Underground Railroad, Abolition
- Courage, Bravery, Heroism
- African American
- Survival
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About This Book
In this Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning novel, a black family moves into an enormous house once used to hide runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.About the Authors or Illustrators
Virginia Hamilton received the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the most prestigious international award in children's literature. She also won the Newbery Medal, three Newbery Honor Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was the first children's author to receive a MacArthur Foundation "a genius" grant in 1995.
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