Aquila's Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad cover

Aquila's Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad

Author: Dell, Pamela

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.1
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 5619
Points per Word 0.000178
Page Count 48
Points per Page 0.020833

Description

In West Virginia, in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.