Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 3.2
Lexile Measure®: 540L
DRA: 28
Guided Reading: M
Genre
- General Fiction
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Social Studies
- Character and Values
- Culture and Diversity
- Summer
- Summer Themes
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Charlie Keller doesn't want to leave his Massachusetts home -- and his beloved old dog, Danny -- and move to Kansas territory, but his abolitionist parents are determined to help Kansas enter the Union as a free state. Farming on the prairie is hard work, and full of dangers. Will Charlie ever feel at home under the vast prairie sky?In the first of a series that will take readers through the Kellers' first year in their new home, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson brings to vivid life a pivotal time in American history.
About 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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