Who Was Sojourner Truth? (Who Was?)

by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Author) Jim Eldridge (Illustrator)

Who Was Sojourner Truth? (Who Was?)
Reading Level: 4th – 5th Grade
Series: Who Was?
Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met and sharing her story until her death in 1883 at age eighty-six. In this easy-to-read biography, Yona Zeldis McDonough continues to share that remarkable story.
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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448486789
Lexile Measure
600L
Guided Reading Level
R
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
December 20, 2015
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
JNF007020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
Library of Congress categories
Biographies
United States
Abolitionists
African American women
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiograp
Truth, Sojourner
African American abolitionists
Social reformers

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