Book
Leon's Story
- Published
- 1997
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 107
- Words
- 10845
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.9
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 970L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–13
The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780374443306
- ISBN-10
- 0374443300
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyCivil Rights MovementHistory-American/U.S. HistoryNonfictionPeople-African AmericanPeople-FarmersUnited States-North Carolina