Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
103 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Preteens lcdgt |
Contents |
Arachis Hypogaea -- Baby Carver -- Bedside reading -- Cafeteria food -- Called -- Cercospora -- A charmed life -- Chemistry 101 -- Chicken talk -- Clay -- Coincidence -- Curve-breaker -- Dawn walk -- The dimensions of the Milky Way -- Drifter -- Driving Dr. Carver -- Egyptian blue -- Eureka -- Four a.m. in the woods -- Friends in the Klan -- From an Alabama farmer -- "God's little workshop" -- Goliath -- Green-thumb boy -- House ways and means -- How a dream dies -- The joy of sewing -- The lace-maker -- The last rose of summer -- Last talk with Jim Hardwick -- Letter to Mrs. Hardwick -- Lovingly sons -- Mineralogy -- Moton Field -- My beloved friend -- My dear spiritual boy -- My people -- The nervous system of the beetle -- The new rooster -- 1905 -- Odalisque -- Old settlers' reunion -- Out of "Slave's ransom" -- Out of the fire -- A patriarch's blessing -- The Penol cures -- The perceiving self -- Poultry husbandry -- The prayer of Miss Budd -- Prayer of the ivory-handled knife -- Professor Carver's Bible class -- Ruellia Noctiflora -- A ship without a rudder -- The sweet-hearts -- Veil-raisers -- Washboard wizard -- Watkins laundry and apothecary -- The wild garden -- The year of the sky-smear. |
Summary |
This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master's degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute. There he conducted innovative research to find uses for crops such as cowpeas, sweet potatoes, and peanuts, while seeking solutions to the plight of landless black farmers. Through 44 poems, told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him, Nelson celebrates his character and accomplishments. She includes prose summaries of events and archival photographs.--Publisher information. |
Awards |
Newbery Honor Book, 2002. |
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Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 2002. |
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John Newbery honor award |
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National book award finalist |
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Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award, 2001 |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.9 1 SD Quiz 59113 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available. |
Subject |
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Poetry.
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African American agriculturists -- Poetry.
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Agriculturists -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Poetry.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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Agriculturists -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 (OCoLC)fst00011770
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African American agriculturists. (OCoLC)fst00799006
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Agriculturists. (OCoLC)fst00801822
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Bildung (DE-588)4006650-2
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Biografie (DE-588)4006804-3
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Jugendbuch (DE-588)4306252-0
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Sklaverei (DE-588)4055260-3
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Waisenkind (DE-588)4139277-2
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United States -- Südstaaten
(DE-588)4078674-2
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Carver, George W.
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Carver, Raymond.
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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Poetry.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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Agriculturists -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1864-1945.
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Genre/Form |
Young adult nonfiction.
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Curriculum resource.
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Narrative poetry. (OCoLC)fst01726682
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Historical poetry. (OCoLC)fst01726465
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Narrative poetry.
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Historical poetry.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- Carver, a life in poems. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, ©2001 (OCoLC)606547606 |
ISBN |
1886910537 (alk. paper) |
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9781886910539 (alk. paper) |
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