Walter Tull: Footballer, Soldier, Hero

By Dan Lyndon and Roger Wade Walker

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Walter Tull was a successful footballer and officer in the British Army in World War One. These achievements are even more exceptional because Walter was Afro-Caribbean, succeeding in a world that still considered black people inferior. Follow him from the orphanage to the football field and final days in the trenches, in this inspiring biography.

Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.A biographyA timeline on pages 54 and 55 presents the key events in Walter Tull's life chronologically, allowing plenty of recapping and further discussion.Curriculum Links: History: What was it like to live here in the past?This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007336373
• ISBN13: 9780007336371
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Collins Educational
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 6