Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Paperback - Ann Rinaldi

Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatle...

Reducere. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley w...

Reducere. The poetry of America's first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking world....

Reducere. The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...

Reducere. "Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." BOOKLIST "We ll c...

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Reducere. 1761--Phillis Wheatley was a little girl of seven or eight years old when she was captured in Gambia and brought to America as a slave. But she did...

Reducere. With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

Reducere. The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of ...

Reducere. Born in West Africa in approximately 1753, Wheatley was sold into slavery as a child and transported to the American colonies in 1761. She was boug...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

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Reducere. This moving collection of poems by Phillis Wheatley is intended to inspire Christians and tribute various believers who had recently been deceased....

Publisher: Sourcebooks, IncAuthor(s): Tera KelleyNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 227 x 278 x 7Cover type: Paperback / softback...

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An urgent and illuminating portrait of forest migration, and of the people studying the forests of the past, protecting the forests of the present ...

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Reducere. Goodbye to Ribbons is a historical biography that follows the incredible true story of a remarkable woman growing up in rural Britain in the 1950s....

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Publisher: Fulcrum PublishingAuthor(s): Kirk JohnsonIllustration(s): illusNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 7Cover t...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Forests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. Today, however, an array of obstacles--hu...

Publisher: Mehta PublishersAuthor(s): Samantha MalavasiIllustration(s): colour illusNumber of pages: 28Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 212 x 276 ...

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Reducere. Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cl...

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New B-format paperback - The Baltic Story recounts the shared history of the countries around the Baltic, from the events of a thousand years ago t...

Journeyman is a first-person biography of Ojibwe rightwinger Jamie Leach, son of the legendary NHL superstar Reggie Leach. Follow the fascinating h...

Publisher: Aurora Metro PublicationsAuthor(s): Anna BirchIllustration(s): black and white photographsNumber of pages: 104Publication date: 2021Dime...

Reducere. Hang on and Fly. A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival Passenger planes are crashing three and four times a month in 195...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): Anna GmeynerTranslator: Kate PhillipsNumber of pages: 552Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 193 x 136 x 43...

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Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): David MacGregorNumber of pages: 348Collection: The Hero with a Thousand FacesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

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For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired...

Reducere. This empowering picture book teaches readers that even great ideas sometimes get a NO--but that NO can actually help great ideas become the best id...