Who Was Marco Polo? (Who Was?)

by Joan Holub (Author) John O'Brien (Illustrator)

Who Was Marco Polo? (Who Was?)
Reading Level: 4th – 5th Grade
Series: Who Was?
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.
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Joan Holub
JOAN HOLUB has written and/or illustrated over 70 books for children, including the popular Step into Reading title Shampoodle. You can visit Joan at her website: JoanHolub.com.

SHELAGH MCNICHOLAS has illustrated a number of children's books. She always carries a sketch book in her pocket just in case she sees something inspiring, which happens often in the English countryside where she lives with her daughter and their cat.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448445403
Lexile Measure
780L
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
July 20, 2007
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Library of Congress categories
Description and travel
Italy
Explorers
Polo, Marco
Asia
Travel, Medieval

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