Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3743
Points per Word
0.000267
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
History Maker Bios (Lerner)
Description
Frederick Douglass is a biography that traces the life of the escaped slave who became a renowned orator, writer, and leader in the nineteenth-century American abolitionist movement. The book details his early years in slavery, his successful flight to freedom, and his rise as a powerful speaker and newspaper publisher, including his work with the North Star. It also covers his advocacy for women's suffrage and his later diplomatic appointments.