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Carver
A Life in Poems
by Marilyn Nelson- Publisher: Front Street, Incorporated
- Characters: George Washington Carver
- Awards: Newbery Medal Nominee (2002), Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author Honor (2002), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry (2001), Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (2002), National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature (2001)
- Release date: May 1, 2001
- Genres: poetry, biography, history, historical, school
- Language: english
- Format: hardcover, 112 pages
- ISBN: 9781886910539 (1886910537)
- Author: Marilyn Nelson
About The Book
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master’s degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver’s achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver’s complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.
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