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Author:

Swain, Gwenyth, 1961-

Title:

A hunger for learning : a story about Booker T. Washington / by Gwenyth Swain ; illustrations by Larry Johnson.

Publisher:

Millbrook Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915--Juvenile literature.
Educators--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915.
Educators.
African Americans--Biography.
Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915.
Educators--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.

Other Authors:

Johnson, Larry, 1949- ill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61) and index.

Contents:

Slavery days -- Freedom -- Working for Mrs. Ruffner -- At Hampton -- Building Tuskegee -- A voice for the South.

Summary:

Profiles the career and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the African-American educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute.

Series:

A creative minds biography

ISBN:

9780329439132
0329439138
9781415624548
1415624542 (BWI bdg.)
0822530902 (pbk.)
9780822530909 (pbk.)
1575057549 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
9781575057545 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005010078

Locations:

30SX663 -- Osage High School (Osage)