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Jazz Age Poet

A Story about Langston Hughes

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 5

The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 5
Copyright 2006
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Millbrook Press ™
Language English
Number of Pages 64
Publication Date 2005-08-01
Text Type Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS JNF007030, JNF007050
Dewey 818'.5209
Graphics 1-color illustrations
Dimensions 5.875 x 8.5
Guided Reading Level R
ATOS Reading Level 5.6
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 102123
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Afterword, Author/Illustrator note, Bibliography/further reading, Index, Table of contents, and Teaching Guides