Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley
by Ann Rinaldi
Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 1996
Word Count 64,767
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 560L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 14467, 9.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Women poets
- Poets--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | General
- Slaves--Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Fiction
- African Americans--Fiction
- African Americans
- History
- Poets
- Women poets--Fiction
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Juvenile fiction
- Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Fiction
- Slaves
- Lists With This Book
- Slavery to Reconstruction
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