Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington

by Jabari Asim

Book Overview

Booker dreamed of making friends with words, setting free the secrets that lived in books. Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a dream about to come true. The young slave who once...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316086576
• ISBN13: 9780316086578
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.0" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3