Fifty cents and a dream / by Jabari Asim ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asim, Jabari, 1962-
Other Authors: Collier, Bryan
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915 > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Educators > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Biography.
Educators.
Biographies.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Biography
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Format: Book

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