Who Was Sojourner Truth?
(2015)

Nonfiction

Book

Series:
Call Numbers:
J/PAPERBACK/SERIES/WHO
J/BIOGRAPHY/306.362/TRUTH,S/MCD

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Paperbacks J/PAPERBACK/SERIES/WHO Available
Kids' Biographies J/BIOGRAPHY/306.362/TRUTH,S/MCD Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [2015]
DESCRIPTION

106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780448486789 (paperback), 0448486784 (paperback), 9781480692084 (PawPrints), 9781480692084, 9780448486789 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES

Who was Sojourner Truth? -- Early days -- Freedom ahead -- The big city -- A new name, a new calling -- "Ain't I a woman?" -- War! -- A streetcar ride -- The final years -- Timelines

"Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met and sharing her story until her death in 1883 at age eighty-six. In this easy-to-read biography, Yona Zeldis McDonough continues to share that remarkable story"--

600L

Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high)

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