Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.9
Lexile Measure®: 360L
DRA: 38
Guided Reading: P
Genre
- Adventure
- General Fiction
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Social Studies
- Character and Values
- Culture and Diversity
- European
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About This Book
‘ A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ — TE. Notable 1981 Children’ s Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress)
About the Authors or Illustrators
Clyde Robert Bulla was born to be a writer, but he wrote for magazines and newspapers for many years before his children's books were published. The chalk garden in The Chalk Box Kid is something Bulla has always wished for.
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