John Henry
(1994)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
E/FOLKTALES/N.AMER/LES

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Folk & Fairy Tales E/FOLKTALES/N.AMER/LES Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1994
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0803716060 (trade), 0803716079 (lib. bdg.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 1995 Caldecott Honor Book award

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain

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Decoding demand: 69 (high) Semantic demand: 82 (very high) Syntactic demand: 96 (very high) Structure demand: 82 (very high)

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