What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and A.G. Ford
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions... read more
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- 5-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2012
Word Count 12,993
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 880L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.1
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 148988, 2 AR Points
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- Subject Headings
- Twins
- Inventors--Fiction
- Brothers and sisters
- Inventors
- Lift-the-flap books
- Moving, Household
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
- Moving, Household--Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- African Americans--Fiction
- Twins--Fiction
- African Americans
- Brothers and sisters--Fiction
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- African American inventors
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
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- African American Experience
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