Letters from a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs
by Lyons, Mary E.
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AR Book Level
4.3
AR Points
5
Word Count
34,561
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
114033 EN
About this book
This fictionalized account of the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, is told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.