Forgotten Bones: Uncovering a Slave Cemetery
by Lois Miner Huey
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2016
Word Count 10,408
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1030L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 175635, 2 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Subject Headings
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - State & Local
- Human remains (Archaeology)
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Northeastern States--Juvenile literature
- African Americans--Northeastern States--Antiquities--Juvenile literature
- Slavery
- Slavery--Northeastern States--History--Juvenile literature
- Slave cemeteries--Northeastern States--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | Archaeology
- African Americans--Northeastern States--History--Juvenile literature
- Northeastern States
- Slaves--Northeastern States--History--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- African Americans
- History
- Slaves--Tombs--Northeastern States--Juvenile literature
- African American cemeteries
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Northeastern States--Antiquities--Juvenile literature
- Slave cemeteries
- African American cemeteries--Northeastern States--Juvenile literature
- Slaves
- Antiquities
- Tombs
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Science Selection, 2016
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