Book
A Lion to Guard Us
- Published
- 1989
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Pages
- 117
- Words
- 14257
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/945210.A_Lion_to_Guard_Us?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 2.9
- AR interest level
- LG — lower grades, K–3
- Lexile
- 570L
- Guided reading level
- P
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–10
- Ambleside year
- Year 1 onwards · ages 6–9
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Featuring a heroine with faith, courage, and a great deal of grit, this acclaimed historical fiction novel portrays the realities faced by three children hoping to find a new home in an unknown land. Amanda Freebold doesn't know what to do. Her father left three years ago for the new colony of Jamestown in America, thousands of miles away. But now that her mother has died, Amanda is left to take care of her younger brother and sister all alone back in England. As the new head of the family, Amanda finally decides to take her brother and sister to America to find Father. The ocean crossing is long and hard, and the children don't know whom to trust. But with her father's little brass lion's head to guard them, Amanda knows that somehow everything will work out.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780673817723
- ISBN-10
- 0673817725
Tags
EnglandFamily Life-Away AloneFamily Life-Family ReunionFamily Life-FathersRecommended Reading-Wheatley Aligned Supplemental TextsSocial Issues-Poverty