Dear Benjamin Banneker

Title
: 
Dear Benjamin Banneker

Author
: 
Pinkney, Andrea Davis author.

ISBN
: 
9780152018924

Edition
: 
1st Voyager Books ed.

Publication Information
: 
San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998, c1994.

Physical Description
: 
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Reading Level
: 
AD 1100 L Lexile

Personal Subject
: 
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806.

Subject Term
: 
Almanacs, American -- History.
 
African American scientists -- Biography.
 
Astronomers.
 
Almanacs -- History.
 
African Americans -- Biography.

Added Author
: 
Pinkney, J. Brian

Summary
: 
A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs, and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)J 921 BANNEKERNonfiction Collection