Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem cover

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Author: Nelson, Marilyn

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.6
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 2125
Points per Word 0.000235
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

This book is a series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England, whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum.