Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words cover

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words

Author: Engle, Margarita

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 6.8
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 10467
Points per Word 0.000191
Page Count 163
Points per Page 0.01227

Description

This biographical, free-verse novel shares the life of Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese African Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.