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Who Was Fidel Castro? (Who Was?)

by Sarah Fabiny (Author) Ted Hammond (Illustrator)

Who Was Fidel Castro? (Who Was?)

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Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th Grade

Series: Who Was?

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When Fidel Castro died in November 2016, many people around the world responded with mixed emotions. Learn all about the man who shaped Cuba into a one-party state and remained in power for more than 50 years. Illustrations.

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Sarah Fabiny has written several Who Was? titles, including biographies of Beatrix Potter, Frida Kahlo, Rachel Carson, and Gloria Steinem.

Classification

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9780451533333

Lexile Measure

810

Guided Reading Level

-

Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Publication date

August 22, 2017

Series

Who Was?

BISAC categories

JNF025210 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/20th Century
JNF007070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
JNF038050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America

Library of Congress categories

History
Cuba
Politics and government
Heads of state
Revolutionaries
Castro, Fidel