num_pages: 48
description: Booker dreamedof making friends with wordssetting free the secretsthat 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 waited outside of the schoolhouse would one day become a legendary educator of freedmen.Award-winning artist Bryan Collier captures the hardship and the spirit of one of the most inspiring figures in American history bringing to life Booker T. Washington's journey to learn to read and to realize a dream.
language: English
title: Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers