Carver, a life in poems

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Label

Carver, a life in poems

Statement of responsibility

Marilyn Nelson

Creator

• trueNelson, Marilyn, 1946-
• Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-

Subject

• trueAfrican Americans -- Poetry
• trueAgriculturists
• Agriculturists -- Poetry
• American poetry
• trueBiographies
• trueBiographies -- Identity | Africans and African Americans
• trueBiographies -- Scholars and educators
• trueBiographies -- Science and medicine | Scientists and inventors
• trueBotanists -- United States -- Poetry
• trueCarver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Poetry
• trueAfrican American agriculturists
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• truePoetry
• trueRacism -- Poetry
• trueInventors -- United States -- Poetry
• African Americans -- Poetry

Genre

• trueBiographies
• trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
• truePoetry

Language

eng

Summary

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver

Award

• ALA Notable Children's Book, 2002
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, 2001.
• Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, 2002.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2002

Awards note

• Newbery Honor Book, 2002.
• Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 2002.
• National book award finalist.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

811/.54

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

890

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PS3573.A4795

LC item number

C37 2001

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

890

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 6
• 12

Target audience

juvenile