Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story

Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
ISBN-10
153416667X
ISBN-13
9781534166677
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
2020-01-15
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Author
Shana Keller

Description

Frederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questions might have eluded him but Douglass did know for certain that learning to read and to write would be the first step in his quest for freedom and his fight for equality. Told from first-person perspective, this picture-book biography draws from the real-life experiences of a young Frederick Douglass and his attempts to learn how to read and write. Author Shana Keller (Ticktock Banneker's Clock) personalizes the text for young readers, using some of Douglass's own words. The lyrical title comes from how Douglass "paid" other children to teach him.

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