# Daniel Boone

**Author:** James Daugherty
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 1939
**Page count:** 94
**Genre:** Biography
**ISBN-13:** `9780670255900`
**ISBN-10:** `0670255904`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/daniel-boone
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Awarded the John Newbery Medal 'for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children' in 1940" James Daugherty has dipped his pen and his brush into our nation's most dynamic character whose life adventures are more exciting than the shadowy legend his name brings to mind. Daniel Boone was a farmer who couldn't stay put.

## Themes

- pioneers
- newbery medal
- biography
- frontier and pioneer life

## Where this book is assigned

### Newbery Medal

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1940 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1940 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1940 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Newbery Medal (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1940 Newbery Medal winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal)

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