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What Was the Boston Tea Party? (What Was?)

by Kathleen Krull (Author) Lauren Mortimer (Illustrator)

What Was the Boston Tea Party? (What Was?)

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Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th Grade

Series: What Was?

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The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the American Revolution. Outraged by the tax on tea, American colonists chose to destroy the tea by dumping it into the water! Includes black-and-white illustrations and a 16-page photo insert.

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Classification

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9780448462882

Lexile Measure

900

Guided Reading Level

Q

Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Publication date

February 07, 2013

Series

What Was?

BISAC categories

JNF025190 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/Colonial & Revolutionary

Library of Congress categories

History
United States
Revolution, 1775-1783
Causes
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773