Benjamin Banneker
By: written by O.G. Smedley ; illustrated by Andrea Kantrowitz
Contributors: Kantrowitz, Andrea
Series: McGraw-Hill reading; McGraw-Hill reading
Publisher: McGraw-Hill School Division
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780021850440
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Astronomers; Biography; African Americans
Description: A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C.
Notes: On cover: Leveled books.