More Than Anything Else
Description
"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
PUBLISHER:
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN-10:
0531094642
ISBN-13:
9780531094648
BINDING:
Hardback - With dust jacket
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1995
NUMBER OF PAGES:
32
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
10.00(H) x 8.38(W)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
Children / juvenile
LANGUAGE:
English