Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
by Harriette Gillem Robinet and Bess Nickens
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1998
Word Count 32,290
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 610L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 27750, 5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- History
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - General
- Slavery
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
- Slavery--Fiction
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile fiction
- United States
- United States--History--1865-1898--Fiction
- United States--History--1865-1898--Juvenile fiction
- People with disabilities--Fiction
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
- African Americans--Fiction
- People with disabilities
- 1865-1898
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Fiction
- African Americans
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