Book
The Longitude Prize
by Joan Dash
- Published
- 2000
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 208
- Words
- 37583
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 8.6
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1160L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
This is a story of John Harrison, inventor of watches and clocks, who spent forty years working on a time-machine which could be used to accurately determine longitude at sea.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780374346362
- ISBN-10
- 0374346364
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyNatural Environments-Oceans/SeasNonfictionPeople-InventorsScience-CartographyScience-Time