The Slave Who Went to Congress Juvenile Fiction Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations Mermaids & Mermen Legends Girls run environmental enterprises

Girls run environmental enterprises

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From a father-son team comes a gorgeous picture book that "pays tribute to the variety of America as well as to its promise—in Christopher Myers's words

The Slave Who Went to Congress Juvenile Fiction Fairy Tales & Folklore - Adaptations Mermaids & Mermen Legends Girls run environmental enterprisesIn 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the U. S. Congress. He was the first African American from Alabama to earn that distinction. In a recreation of Turner's own words, based on speeches and other writings that Turner left behind, co authors Marti S. Rosner and Frye Gaillard have crafted the story of a remarkable man who taught himself to read when he was young and began a lifetime quest for