Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped from the Sky
by Margot Theis Raven and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
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- Grade
- 1-6
- Genre
- Picture Book
Year Published 2002
Word Count 1,834
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1000L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 60681, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949--Juvenile literature
- Berlin
- Berlin (Germany)
- Girls
- Berlin (Germany)--History--Blockade, 1948-1949
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany
- Germany--History--1945-1955
- Girls--Germany--Berlin--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command--Biography
- History
- Air pilots, Military--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Germany
- Air pilots, Military
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | General
- Halvorsen, Gail S
- United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Halvorsen, Gail S.--Juvenile literature
- Simon, Mercedes--Juvenile literature
- Blockade, 1948-1949
- 1945-1955
- Simon, Mercedes
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