Book
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
by Rhoda Blumberg
- Published
- 1985
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Words
- 17855
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.9
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1070L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
Explains Commodore Matthew Perry’s 1853–54 expeditions to Japan and the negotiations that ended centuries of national seclusion, presenting both American and Japanese perspectives on the encounter.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780688037239
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