Hang a thousand trees with ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley
Title
:
Hang a thousand trees with ribbons : the story of Phillis Wheatley
Author
:
Rinaldi, Ann.
ISBN
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9780152053932
Publication Information
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Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005.
Physical Description
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336 p. ; 18 cm.
General Note
:
Originally published: 1st Gulliver Books paperback ed., 1996.
Reading Level
:
560 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784-Fiction.
Subject Term
:
African Americans -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.
Enslaved persons -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Biographical fiction.
Summary
:
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
| Library | Call Number | Status |
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| Stillwater Public Library | J FICTION RIN | Children's Fiction |