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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life and career of Moina Bell Michael, who made the red poppy of Flanders Fields a symbol to remind people of the sacrifice and courage of America's soldiers. Includes author's note and extra information.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Booker T. Washington's childhood following the end of slavery, his struggle to get an education, and his journey at age sixteen to the Hampton Institute.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the man who was born a slave and worked in salt mines as a youth but went on to become a national leader for the education of African-Americans and founder of Tuskegee Institute.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Booker T. Washington had an incredible passion for learning. Born a slave, he taught himself to read. When the Civil War ended, Booker finally fulfilled his dream of attending school. After graduation, he was invited to teach in Tuskegee, Alabama. Finding many eager students, but no school, Booker set out to build his own school--brick by brick"--
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