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Author Lassieur, Allison.

Title Benjamin Banneker : astronomer and mathematician / by Allison Lassieur ; consultant, Steven X. Lee.

Publication Info. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J-B BANNEKER    Withdrawn
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department  JB BANNEKER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JB BANNEKER BENJAMIN L    Check Shelf
Description 32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Fact finders. Biographies
Fact finders. Biographies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Contents Planning a city -- Growing up -- Wooden clock -- Looking to the sky -- New adventures -- Later years -- Fast facts -- Time line -- Glossary -- Internet sites -- Read more -- Index.
Summary "An introduction to the life of Benjamin Banneker, the African American astronomer and mathematician who helped survey Washington, D.C., and who wrote several successful almanacs"--T.p. verso.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.6 0.5 104067.
Subject Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.
Astronomers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Astronomers.
Scientists.
Mathematicians.
African Americans -- Biography.
ISBN 0736854320 hardcover
9780736854320 hardcover
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