The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation

Year Published 2016

Word Count 685

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 880L
• ATOS Reading Level: 4.2

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 187408

• Curricular Area
• History
• Science

• Subject Headings
• James, Richard T.
• Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
• Inventors
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Toys, Dolls & Puppets
• James, Betty
• James, Richard T., 1914-1974
• Slinky (Toy)--Juvenile literature
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
• James, Betty, 1918-2008
• Inventors--United States--Biography
• Toys
• Slinky (Toy)

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• Battle of the Books 2019-2020, Gr. 3-5