Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

The Resource Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Label
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
Statement of responsibility
Jean Lee Latham ; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II
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Contributor
Illustrator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Readers today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor"s world--Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn"t promise to have the makings of a sailor; he was too physically small. Nat may have been slight of build, but no one guessed that he had the persistence and determination to master sea navigation in the days when men sailed only by "log, lead, and lookout." Nat"s long hours of study and observation, collected in his famous work, The American Practical Navigator (also known as the "Sailors" Bible"), stunned the sailing community and made him a New England hero
Member of
Awards note
Newbery Medal, 1956
Cataloging source
DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
  • 570L
  • Decoding indicator: 100 (high)
  • Semantic indicator: 100 (high)
  • Syntactic indicator: 90 (high)
  • Structure indicator: 90 (high)
  • Middle School
Intended audience source
  • Lexile
  • Lexile
Interest level
MG
Literary form
fiction
Reading level
4.1
Series statement
John Newbery Medal Book, 1956
Study program name
Accelerated Reader
Target audience
juvenile
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