A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky

A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet

Kathryn Lasky with Paul Lee (Illustrator)

38 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
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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 In 1761, a young girl was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, who named her Phillis after the slave sch...

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