The Great Migration: An American Story
by Jacob Lawrence and Walter Dean Myers
According to Lawrence, his sequence of paintings, begun in 1940 when he was 22 years... read more
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- Grade
- 3-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1993
Word Count 674
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 830L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 9593, 0.5 AR Points
- Subject Headings
- African Americans in art--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Painting, American
- Juvenile Fiction | Biographical | United States
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000--Juvenile literature
- Migration, Internal
- African Americans--History
- African Americans
- Lawrence, Jacob
- History
- African Americans in art
- Rural-urban migration in art--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Rural-urban migration in art
- Lists With This Book
- ReadyGEN
- ReadyGEN Trade Book List, Grade 5
- Sample: EL Education, Grades 6-8
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Selection, 1993
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