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CBC Showcase: Women's History Month and National Poetry Month
Celebrate Poetry Month with one of the earliest and most famous African-American poets, Phillis Wheatley, featured in Volume 10 of the Young Patriots Series.
by Kathryn Kilby Borland and Helen Ross Speicher, illustrated by Cathy Morrison
"What am I bid for this strong, healthy girl?" the auctioneer asked.
The crowd on the Boston wharf on this June morning in 1761 laughed. The small black girl actually looked very frail. She was wrapped in a piece of ragged carpet, but she shivered and coughed in a cool breeze.
So begins the astonishing story of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American and first slave to publish a book and featured in Volume 10 of the Young Patriots Series.
Says ForeWord Magazine, "[Y]oung readers will be fascinated by Young Patriots like the gifted Phillis Wheatley, her self-doubts, and her ultimate triumph over circumstances that would defeat most people."
Ages 8-12
ISBN: 1-882859-47-2 (hardbound) / 1-882859-48-0 (paperback)
Price: $14.95 hardbound / $9.95 paperback
Publisher: The Young Patriots Series/Patria Press
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