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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch / by Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II.

Summary:

After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."

Record details

  • ISBN: 0618250816
  • ISBN: 9780618250813
  • ISBN: 0618250743
  • ISBN: 9780618250745
  • ISBN: 1435201426
  • ISBN: 9781435201422
  • ISBN: 0395137136
  • ISBN: 9780395137130
  • Physical Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [©2003?]

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Cosgrave, John O'Hara.
Target Audience Note:
570L Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 8.0 16.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 8 16.
Accelerated Reader MG 4.1 8.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.1 14 Quiz: 01865 Guided reading level: Y.
Awards Note:
Newbery Medal, 1956.
Subject: Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 > Juvenile fiction.
Newbery Medal.
Mathematicians > Juvenile fiction.
Astronomers > Juvenile fiction.
Navigation > Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life > Juvenile fiction.
Salem (Mass.) > History > 18th century > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.

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