Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Minter
A biography of William Doc Key, a formerly enslaved man and self-trained veterinarian... read more
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Area
- African American
Year Published 2016
Word Count 2,673
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 910L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 185164
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Training
- Horse trainers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Human-animal communication
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Horses
- Humane education
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Horse trainers
- Human-animal communication--United States--Juvenile literature
- Human-animal relationships
- Key, Bill, 1833-1909--Juvenile literature
- Horses--Training--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- Key, Bill
- Human-animal relationships--United States--Juvenile literature
- History
- Humane education--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- Biography
- United States
- Beautiful Jim Key (Horse)--Juvenile literature
- Beautiful Jim Key (Horse)
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Daniel Minter
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Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 5
Nonfiction Read and Respond Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Activity Guide from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
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Reader's Theater Script from Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019
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Teacher's Guide from Lee & Low
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Book Trailers 1

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Awards & Distinctions 4

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2021
Commended, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
Biography Selection, 2017

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2021
Commended, 2017
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