not aimed at any age cohort?

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I read "She Came to Slay" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, about Harriet Tubman. I learned a lot, but I kept wondering who the intended audience was. Maybe everybody? There was a lot of scholarship behind it, with extensive backnotes and bibliography and suggested reading list. I don't know any of the systems for grading a text, but it was written in fairly short sentences, without a lot of hard words. It was in the adult new book section of the library, so I guess the librarian (or marketers) didn't consider it a kids' book, but it's entirely suitable for kids, I think. There were archival photos and new paintings and occasional pages of statistics and quotations. I had different qualms about EAD's book "Never Caught," about Ona Judge, who escaped from George and Martha Washington, and whom they never stopped trying to track down. In that case, it was more like biofic than straight biography.