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Who Was Marco Polo?

Name: Who Was Marco Polo?
ISBN: 9780448445403

Paperback – Illustrated, July 5, 2007

Joan Holub

Penguin Young Readers Group · Paperback · July 5, 2007

Reading lane: Renaissance for Kids

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back!

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Why This Clicks

Travel and Testimony

A readable biography pairs Marco Polo’s far-reaching travels with a question about how much to believe.

Come here for

A young traveler crossing from Venice toward Kublai Khan’s China
The curious gap between reported wonders and what may have happened

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An entertaining, highly readable biography for young readers
Black-and-white artwork alongside the account

Book Details

Authors: Joan Holub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: July 5, 2007
Format: Paperback
Theme: Renaissance for Kids · Asian History for Kids
Reading lane: Renaissance for Kids

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Historical Biographies for Kids
Asian History for Kids
Exploration & Discovery

About This Book

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 . . ....

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