A Little Union Scout

by Joel Chandler Harris · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 1,920 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: African Americans — Juvenile fiction · Soldiers — Juvenile fiction · United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Juvenile fiction

Words worth knowing: expectantly · stutter · rocker · contraband · simulate · wheedle · ambuscade · unfeigned

She had a craze for the antique, and the older things were the more precious they were in her eyes.

Among other things she found an old scrap-book that her mother and I thought was safe under lock and key.

She sat in a sunny place and read it page by page, and, when she had finished, her curiosity was aroused.

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