More Than Anything Else
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ISBN: 0531094642 / Publisher: Orchard Books, September 1995
Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read
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"A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire to learn to read.... [A] moving and inspirational story." - School Library Journal, starred review
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