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George Washington Carver : the peanut wizard / by Laura Driscoll ; illustrated by Jill Weber.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection S417.C3 D75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Driscoll, Laura, author.
- Series:
- Smart about--
- Smart about scientists.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943--Juvenile literature.
- Carver, George Washington.
- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943.
- African American agriculturists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American agriculturists.
- Agriculturists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Agriculturists.
- Scientists.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African American agriculturists--BiographyJuvenile literature.
- Agriculturists--United States--BiographyJuvenile literature.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [©2003].
- Summary:
- A fictional student's report presents information on George Washington Carver, who became an expert on peanuts and other plants and taught others at the famous college for African Americans, Tuskeegee Institute.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has column 'For Young Readers' from "Book World" of February 6, 2005 laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0448432439
- 9780448432434
- 0448432862
- 9780448432861
- OCLC:
- 53178717
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- Publisher description
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