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More Than Anything Else - Marie Bradby, Chris K. Soentpiet, Chris Soentpiet
More Than Anything Else
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"A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire... show more
"A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire to learn to read.... [A] moving and inspirational story." - School Library Journal, starred review
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780531094648 (0531094642)
ASIN: 531094642
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
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4.0 More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
More Than Anything Else is an inspirational story about Booker T. Washington. This beautifully illustrated book describes a young boy growing up in the days after emancipation. Despite his aches, pains and hunger, as a result of long laborious days shoveling salt, Booker cannot stop dreaming about ...
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5.0 More Than Anything Else
8/5/13 ** I've tagged this as both historical fiction (primarily) and biography (as it might have been). This moving tale is a narrative of how Booker T. Washington might have learned to read.I used this book on the second day of school to begin the discussion with my fourth graders of my own love ...
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