When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

Year Published 2013

Word Count 1,085

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 770L
• ATOS Reading Level: 4.2

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 160233

• Curricular Area
• English Language Arts
• History
• Music
• Social Studies

• Subject Headings
• Rap musicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
• Rap musicians
• DJ Kool Herc
• Kool DJ Herc--Juvenile literature
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
• Disc jockeys
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Music | Rap & Hip Hop
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Music
• Disc jockeys--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
• United States

• Lists With This Book
• African American Experience
• Social Science, Gr. 3
• Black Boy Joy
• 3rd-5th Grade
• Black History Elementary