Book
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
- Published
- 2011
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 154
- Words
- 28446
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 9.1
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 1250L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
This chronicle of Prohibition in the United States covers the period from 1920 to 1933, when it was illegal to sell or drink alcohol, and discusses how a movement to heal social ills became a burden to ordinary citizens and fame to gangsters.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781596434493
- ISBN-10
- 159643449X
Tags
ALSC NotablesBehavior-CriminalHistory-American/U.S. HistoryHistory-Roaring 20sLegislationNonfictionUnited States of America