Who Was Babe Ruth?
by Joan Holub, Ted Hammond, and Nancy Harrison • Part of the Who Was? What Was? Where Is? Series
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Sports
Year Published 2012
Word Count 7,557
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 690L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 149871
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948
- Baseball players
- Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948--Juvenile literature
- Baseball players--United States--Biography
- Ruth, Babe
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
- Baseball players--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
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