Chasing the Nightbird
by Krista Russell
As the son of famous Black Jack Valera, the best whaler on the eastern seaboard,... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Adventure
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2011
Word Count 45,851
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 680L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 145942
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Cape Verdean Americans
- Conduct of life--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Abolitionists
- Sailors--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Sailors
- Conduct of life
- Abolitionists--Fiction
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction
- Massachusetts--History--1775-1865--Fiction
- History
- 1775-1865
- Cabo Verdean Americans--Fiction
- Fugitive slaves
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