The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
by F.N. Monjo and Fred Brenner
The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's... read more
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- Grade
- PK-6
- Genre
- Beginning / Early Reader
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1970
Word Count 1,886
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 560L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 259, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
- Underground Railroad
- United States
- Underground Railroad--Fiction
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- Fugitive slaves
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