Close to the Wind: The Beaufort Scale
by Malone, Peter
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AR Book Level
6.8
AR Points
1
Word Count
3,635
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
115651 EN
About this book
In 1810, a British naval officer and surveyor, Francis Beaufort, developed a scale to give sailors a common language for describing the wind. In this fictionalized account, witness how the wind affected day-to-day life on a ship in the 1800s.