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Carver: A Life in Poems

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By Marilyn Nelson
Publisher Front Street imprint of Boyds Mills Press
Carver: A Life in Poems
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George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a masters degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the allblackstaffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soilreplenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carvers achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carvers complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.

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9392 words9,392 words
112 pages112 pages
Lexile 890LLexile 890L
Grade 6 to 8Grade 6 to 8
Published 2001Published 2001

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