Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
by Janet Halfmann and Duane Smith
The true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a... read more
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2008
Word Count 3,055
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 870L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 123274, 0.5 AR Points
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- Subject Headings
- United States. Congress. House--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Planter (Steamship)--Juvenile literature
- Smalls, Robert
- Participation, African American
- African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Fugitive slaves--South Carolina--Beaufort--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African American legislators--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Transportation | Boats, Ships & Underwater Craft
- Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915--Juvenile literature
- Ship captains--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African American legislators
- African Americans
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- History
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- United States
- Ship captains
- Planter (Steamship)
- Beaufort (S.C.)
- Beaufort (S.C.)--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Beaufort
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- South Carolina
- Fugitive slaves
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