Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham and John O'Hara Cosgrave II
1957 Newbery Medal Winner
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1973
Word Count 56,714
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 570L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 16, 8.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- History
- Seafaring life
- Bowditch, Nathaniel
- Mathematicians--Fiction
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838--Fiction
- 18th century
- Salem (Mass.)
- Seafaring life--Fiction
- Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838--Juvenile fiction
- Navigation
- Mathematicians
- Astronomers--Fiction
- Astronomers
- Navigation--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | United States - General
- Salem (Mass.)--History--18th century--Fiction
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John Newbery Medal, 1922-2022
Winner, 1956
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