Who was Marco Polo?

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Title:

Who was Marco Polo?

Author:

Holub, Joan author.

ISBN:

9780448445403

9781428741614

Publication Information:

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c2007.

Physical Description:

105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Series:

Contents:

Who was Marco Polo? -- A family of merchants -- Marco leaves home -- The long trip to China -- The great Kublai Khan -- Marco works for the Khan -- Fierce Mongol warriors -- Trapped -- Delivering the pricess bride -- Home again -- The famous book -- Were Marco's stories true?

Reading Level:

780 L Lexile

Personal Subject:

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?

Subject Term:

Explorers -- Italy -- Biography.

Travel, Medieval.

Geographic Term:

Asia -- Description and travel.

Added Author:

O'Brien, John, 1953-

Summary:

A biography of the famous medieval Venetian traveler, Marco Polo.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Bayport Public Library	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Lake Elmo Library	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Valley Library (Lakeland)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi)	J 921 POLO	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Summary

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.

Author Notes

Author Joan Holub graduated from college in Texas with a fine arts degree. She illustrated her first published children's book in 1992 and began illustrating full time, shortly thereafter. She sold her first two manuscripts in 1996 and has since become a full time author. She has written and/or illustrated over 130 children's books, including the Goddess Girls and Heroes in Training Series. Her title Mighty Dads, illustrated by James Dean, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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