The Matchlock Gun
by Walter D. Edmonds
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- Grade
- 1-5
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1941
Word Count 5,708
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 860L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 56, 1.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life--New York (State)--Fiction
- History
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Juvenile Fiction | General
- United States
- Courage--Fiction
- French and Indian War, 1755-1763
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Juvenile fiction
- United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Fiction
- Courage
- New York (State)
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Awards & Distinctions 1

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2023
Winner, 1942
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