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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of the African-American agriculturist at the Tuskegee Institute, emphazing his love of plants and his belief in living in harmony with the natural world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictional student's report presents information on George Washington Carver, who became an expert on peanuts and other plants and taught others at the famous college for African Americans, Tuskeegee Institute.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the life of African-American scientist George Washington Carver who overcame great hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man who was born a slave in Missouri and who overcame many hardships before going on to become a college professor known for his accomplishments in the field of agriculture.
Publisher
Marshall Pub. and Promotions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Despite being born into slavery and having to live through poor health, poverty, and prejudice, Carver emerged as a great scientist and inventor, and is known not only for his discoveries, but for changing the myth that one race was inferior to another based on intellect.
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