Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers
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- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2001
Word Count 16,730
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1050L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.4
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 18462, 3.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile literature
- Slave insurrections
- Amistad (Schooner)--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Law & Crime
- Antislavery movements
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 19th Century
- United States
- Slave insurrections--United States--Juvenile literature
- Antislavery movements--United States--Juvenile literature
- Amistad (Schooner)
- Lists With This Book
- African American Heritage and Culture
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Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2021
Selection, 1999
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