The 290
by Scott O'Dell
A shipyard apprentice finds high adventure aboard the S.S. Alabama, a Confederate... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1976
Word Count 23,632
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 910L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 80305, 4 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Science
- Subject Headings
- Seafaring life--Fiction
- Alabama (Ship)
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations--Juvenile fiction
- Seafaring life
- Naval operations
- Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877--Fiction
- Semmes, Raphael
- Alabama (Screw sloop)--Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877--Juvenile fiction
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- History
- Alabama (Screw sloop)--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Boats, Ships, & Underwater Craft
- United States
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction
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