Fifty Cents and a Dream

Young Booker T. Washington

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Publisher Description

Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true. The young slave who once waited outside of the schoolhouse would one day become a legendary educator of freedmen.

Award-winning artist Bryan Collier captures the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history, bringing to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn, to read, and to realize a dream.

  • GENRE
    Kids
    RELEASED
    2012
    December 4
    LANGUAGE
    EN
    English
    LENGTH
    48
    Pages
    PUBLISHER
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    SELLER
    Hachette Digital, Inc.
    SIZE
    20.5
    MB
    AUDIENCE
    Grades P-3

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