| Who Was Marco Polo? Contributor(s): Holub, Joan (Author), Who Hq (Author), O'Brien, John (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0448445409 ISBN-13: 9780448445403 Publisher: Penguin Workshop OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable "Who Was" . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John OBrien. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Historical - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Exploration & Discovery |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006038243 |
| Lexile Measure: 780 |
| Series: Who Was...? |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.38" W x 7.63" (0.26 lbs) 112 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 116380 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien. |