The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles
"We cannot let this history die, nor can we let it fade away. As it has filled... read more
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- 5-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2006
Word Count 21,343
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1130L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 103625, 4 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 369th--Juvenile literature
- To 1964
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964--Juvenile literature
- Participation, African American
- World War, 1914-1918
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- African Americans
- African American troops
- United States
- Social conditions
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, African American--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
- United States. Army--African American troops--Juvenile literature
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