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Item Nr: B 123879 Title: Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Tate, Don
Length: 36 Prod/Pub: Peachtree
Copyright: 2015 Series:
Book Type: NP Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  In this powerful biography of George Moses Horton, the first southern African-American man to be published, Don Tate tells an inspiring and moving story of talent and determination. This is the story of North Carolina slave George Moses Horton, who taught himself to read, learned to write, and became a well-known, published poet in spite of his slave status. IL 3-6. AR 4.5. RC 4.5. Lexile 730. GR S.

  Subjects:
  1962 - ADVERSITY
  153 - AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  204 - BIOGRAPHY
  1601 - BIOGRAPHY--MEN
  1539 - GUIDED READING LEVEL S
  1954 - JUVENILE NONFICTION
  1677 - LEXILE 700-799
  1926 - MINDSET/MINDSETS
  770 - MULTICULTURAL/MULTICULTURALISM
  808 - NORTH CAROLINA
  1983 - PEOPLE AND PLACES
  871 - POETRY
  872 - POETS
  998 - SLAVERY
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES