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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better. His work...
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Santillana USA Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Description
Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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