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Author

Gigliotti, Jim.

Title Who was George Washington Carver? / by Jim Gigliotti ;iIllustrated by Stephen Marchesi.

Publication Info.

New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Randon House, 2015.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Eureka Juvenile Non-Fiction	J92 Carver	---	Available
Lakeside Biography	92 CAR	---	Available
Meadowlark Biography	92 CAR	---	Available
Nettels Non-Fiction	B GIG	---	Available
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Biography	J BIO Carver	---	DUE 04-18-24

Description	105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Series	Who was-- ?
	Who was-- ?
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-105).
Audience	Ages 8-12.
Contents	Who was George Washington Carver? -- Orphaned -- Childhood -- School days -- College man -- The greatest good -- Tuskegee -- Peanuts! -- Lasting impact -- Timelines.
Summary	"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 with vegetables, especially peanuts, made him famous and changed agriculture forever. He went on to develop nearly 100 household products and over 100 recipes using peanuts."--Provided by publisher.
Subject	Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 -- Juvenile literature.
	African American agriculturists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Agriculturists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943. (OCoLC)fst00011770
	African American agriculturists. (OCoLC)fst00799006
	Agriculturists. (OCoLC)fst00801822
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Marchesi, Stephen, illustrator.
ISBN	9780606375610
	9781484477649